Early timesharing/BBS systems

From: Brad Parker <brad_at_heeltoe.com>
Date: Sat Jul 17 12:42:30 2004

"Richard A. Cini" wrote:
...
> 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?

There were probably a lot, but I remember "Call/370", which I think was
one of the first commercial ones.

In 1977/78 I recall using Anderson Jacobson 300 baud acoustic couplers
(there's a entire story right there) and verious mechanical terminals,
all very large.

(but, able to fit in the back of a vw bus! :-)

-brad
Received on Sat Jul 17 2004 - 12:42:30 BST