🚀 go-pugleaf

CALNet is already in use by California public radio stations. This is not
well-chosen ... or someone decided to take on public radio instead of just
picking a less flashy name.

Or they've never, ever listened to KQED ...

-- richard



In article <b_4kl+p.bobr@netcom.com> bobr@netcom.com (Bob Rieger) writes:
>
>
>NETCOM On-line Communication Services is pleased to announce the expansion
>of CALNet into the Los Angeles area. CALNet is an advanced high speed digital 
>network that provides inexpensive connectivity in major cities throughout 
>California.  CALNet can be utliized to connect branch offices, provide 
>local calling for tele-computing, establish on-demand or direct Internet 
>connections, connections for News, E-Mail, and personal dial-up service.  
>CALNet is owned, operated and maintained by NETCOM, so there are no 
>commercial use restrictions or connect time charges.
>
>The new POP provides local calling for greater Los Angeles, Inglewood, 
>Beverly Hills, El Segundo, Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Van Nuys, and 
>Culver City.  All services, including News/Mail/Domain-Service, SLIP/PPP 
>connections,  and Dialup accounts will be available.  Dialup accounts 
>include shell access (ksh, csh, tcsh, sh, and bash), which allows you to 
>take full advantage of our network of SPARC based MP servers. NETCOM 
>supports more than 120 dial-in Telebits and has a high speed Internet 
>connection to assure quick reliable delivery E-Mail and news. CALNet will
>be expanding into several new areas over the next several months.  These 
>areas include San Deigo, Sacramento, and Seattle Washington. 
>Additional information can be obtained by dialing into any one of the 
>local access numbers.  
>
>  Just login as guest,  no password is required. 
>
>  o Los Angeles, Inglewood, Beverly Hills, El Segundo,
>    Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Van Nuys, Culver... (310) 842-8835
>
>  o Santa Cruz,  Scotts Valley ....................... (408) 459-9851
>
>  o San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Albany
>    Richmond, Alameda, Piedmont, Belvedere, Orinda, 
>    Moraga, San Pablo,  Laffette, Emeryville, 
>    & Brisbane  ...................................... (510) 865-9004 
>
>  o San Jose, Campbell, Almaden, Cupertino, Los Gatos,
>    Saratoga, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, & Milpitas  .... (408) 241-9760 
>
>  o Stanford, Mt View, Los Altos, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, and 
>    Redwood City  .................................... (415) 424-0131
>
>  o Pleasanton, Fremont, Hayward, Livermore, Bishop, 
>    San Ramone, Dublin, Newark, Danville, Sunol, and 
>    Bishop Ranch  .................................... (510) 426-6860
>
>NETCOM offers a variety of services including:
>
>	o  ftp/telnet/irc & others  (Internet)
>	o  E-Mail  (elm, mail, mush with username@machine formats)
>	o  Netnews (2 weeks of news and over 2200 groups)
>        o  News readers:  rn, trn, nn, zn, tin, vnews, readnews, & more
>	o  Shell access  (csh, ksh, sh, tcsh, bash)
>	o  Development tools
>	o  Text processing  (NROFF, TROFF, GNU-emacs, micro-emacs, vi, others)
> 	o  Over 200 custom utilities 
>	o  News Feeds/Mail feeds (no connect charges)
>	o  UUCP services  (no time charges)
>	o  LOW COST SLIP/PPP accounts
>	o  Business accounts  (news feeds, dedicated circuits, processing)
>	o  Domain registration
>	o  Large archive of sources 
>        o  RFC's on-line	
>
>	IP Address (netcom.netcom.com)           192.100.81.100
>	Voice                                    (408) 554-UNIX
>	Fax:                                     (408) 241-9145
>
>	Bob Rieger
>	Network Operations Mgr
>____________________________________________________________________________
>Bob Rieger                            (408) 554-UNIX         bobr@netcom.com
>Operations                            Netcom - Online Communication Services


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