The Big Electric Cat
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The Big Electric Cat
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The Big Electric Cat, named for an Adrian Belew song, was a public access computer system in New York City in the late 1980s, known on Usenet as node dasys1. Based on a Stride Computer brand minicomputer running the UniStride Unix variant, the Big Electric Cat provided dialup modem users with text terminal-based access to Usenet at no charge. This was the first such system in New York and one of the first in the world. Previously, access to Usenet had been almost exclusively through systems at u
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2024-03-14T20:47:39Z
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