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Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images

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In article <q83170$te2$1@dont-email.me>, Rich  <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
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>But I also now better understand why the Compuserve pricing model was 
>set the way it was.  They were coming from, and accustomed to, 
>computing systems where every little thing one did was billed by the 
>second to some account, so having an awful high per-minute rate for 
>nearly anything done on Compuserve was likely seen by them as "just the 
>normal way of doing things".

Yes, this is how the world was at the time.  Lots of towns had computer
service bureaus where you could take your batch job, or to which you could
dial up and use an interactive account, and by those standards machine time
at Compuserve was pretty cheap.

Cycles were expensive, unless you could beg or borrow time from a university
or a bank or something at night.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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[Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-02 17:29 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-02 21:01 -0400
    Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-04-03 12:18 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2019-04-03 23:55 -0500
  Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-03 11:00 -0400
    Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-03 19:23 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-03 16:31 -0400
      Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-03 22:36 -0400
        Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-04 07:56 +0000
          Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-04-04 12:52 +0000
            Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-04 13:02 +0000
        Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-04 09:20 -0400

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