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Originally Posted by Trade_Monkey
2 hours to download the newspaper she said (@ 5 dollars an hour in 1981) .... thats cool  |
And as she said that was with no ads, no pictures and no comics
The 2 things that made me grin the biggest was her talking about what we now take for granted as "not far-fetched" and they dialed up with a rotory phone and put the handset in the cradle
It was around the time of this clip (maybe a year or so after) that a friend brought his very expensive computer over and blew my mind by hooking it up to my phone, dialing a local hobbiest BBS and downloaded a simple game. It had better sound effects than the Atari 2600 games I had at the time, but the graphics were not significantly better and we both concurred that the Atari was the better "gaming machine"
It inspired me to buy my first computer, a Timex Sinclair
and I thought I was really styling with my later "upgrade" to a Radio Shack CoCo (color computer). Neither had a modem but I could get free games by spending half the day typing in codes from computer magazines (and go blurry-eyed troubleshooting looking for that
ONE typo) and save them on a cassette tape.
