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Re: The BBS era

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Shadow <Sh@dow.br> writes:

> Oldsters will be telling us about their 300 baud modems and
> Unix terminals.

Circa '88 I was accessing a local BBS with an Osborne I at a blazing
2400 baud.  And on one occasion, I used a DecWriter II with a 300 baud
acoustic coupler to log hardcopy of all the possible pathways in one
of the BBS's games.

By '89, I did have a couple of Unix accounts and spent a lot of money
doing long distance dialup and then, later, DataPac.  But emacs didn't
work right over DataPac.  Some time in the early 90s, Nova Scotia's 1st
ISP put an AP within local call range and I cancelled DataPac.  I
could telnet straight from the AP's command line to my Unix accounts
with the terminal software on the Osborne.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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