CompuServe rebuilt as a working online service
CompuServe Web recreates the 1980s service in Pascal, reachable by browser or Telnet, with page codes taken from an OCR'd copy of the user manual. Claude helped sort out multi-session threading.
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CompuServe Web is a working recreation of the 1980s CompuServe online service, written in Pascal and reachable from a web browser or a Telnet terminal. Logging on as a guest shows the service as it was, and page codes such as GO CB or TOP come from an OCR'd copy of the CompuServe user manual.
Claude helped the builder sort out multi-session threading. New accounts wait up to 24 hours for a sysop to approve them.
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From the maker's own write-up or code. We summarise what they report; we haven't tested it ourselves.
- Blogs: CompuServe, rebuiltPublished
Adafruit's blog post about the recreation.