Hello, all:
I was at VCFe yesterday and I have to say that the speakers and
demonstrations were great. Sellam did a fantastic job and where the event
was located at the Sun facilities worked out perfectly. One demo that I
missed was the ARPANET dial-up simulation which wasn't there when I left at
3:30.
Anyway, this demo brings-up an interesting question. What kind of dial-up
systems existed in the 70's before consumer-oriented services like
CompuServe? I remember the DowJones and CompuServe sign-up packs at
RadioShack in maybe 1979 (I joined CIS in 1988. I even remember my ID:
70153,3367). I also remember in high school (around 1983) using a DECwriter
to dial into the timesharing computer (at 300 baud; I don't know the host
system) at one of the local universities.
Just curious. Thanks.
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site:
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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Received on Sat Jul 17 2004 - 10:50:44 BST