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Since the most commonly asked question about modems is, "What can they do?", the Happy Hacker makes one important suggestion: hook up with Harvard's massive computer facilities. And you don't even need a modem or an expensive personal computer. Just walk into the Science Center and follow any of the following suggestions. (But it's much more fun from your own dorm room...
...Happy Hacker's favorite use of the Harvard computer facilitities is to send mail. You can send messages to friends at most major U.S. colleges, and even some foreign ones, such as Hebrew University in Jerusalem. All this is done through the wonderful world of BITNET, an inter-university computer link...
...only prerequisite for sending messages to friends at other colleges is knowing their computer address. For example, my friend at Yale, George Hacker's address is YALEVMX\!HACGEOA. To send him a note, all you would need to do is log onto my low-pri account and type MAIL YALEVMX\!HACGEOA return. You simply type the message, and when you get to the end type ctrl D. The message will then be sent...
Even if you haven't established yourself as a low-priority computer user, you can still use one of the newest (and as yet untested by the Happy Hacker) features of the class 5 computer--the Student Employment Office computerized job board...
...Happy Hacker? I've been sending form letters to all my friends at different colleges. With the advanced features of the MAIL command, sending the same letter to hundreds of people across the country is easy. By the way, to send mail to the Happy Hacker, type MAIL RGN@WJH12 return...