Shell & Character-Based Dialup
Norcov.com provides full-access Unix Shell accounts at a cost of $15/month unlimited access. This service is ONLY available to local phone customers in the San Francisco Bay Area of California..
Shell accounts are allowed a maximum of 30 mb of disk space per month. See the Disk-Usage section for more information on storage costs. You can also set up your own personal home-page from your shell account. Please note that this is not a dedicated service; idle timeouts are set for 15 minutes.
The shell account will allow you access to a standard Unix shell (bash, by default) allowing you full access to email, news, and the Internet. A basic knowledge of Unix fundamentals is required, however we'll do our best to point you in the right direction so you can find the information you require.
The mail readers available are elm, mush, pine, and the generic Unix mail program. The trn and tin news readers are available to access Usenet newsgroups. File transfers can be accomplished using ftp or ncftp, only your communications software will need to be robust enough to allow you to transfer the information back to your system.
A general purpose information browser, Lynx, is available to connect you to the World Wide Web. While it cannot download the graphic information, it can help you quickly do some surfing around the Net!