Sometimes I think the internet is too easy and I miss Compuserve and some of the archaic gyrations I'd have to go through to read newsgroups from my little stealth modem in my work PC. Ah, sweet fidonet and your brethren.
Yeah, I could do that, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much.
Spike ,'Showtime'
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§ ita § - May 23, 2008 8:22:03 am PDT #6380 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DCJensen - May 23, 2008 12:01:46 pm PDT #6381 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Ah, sweet fidonet and your brethren.
Ah yes, Fidonet. I remember thinking that WWIV message boarding was more user-friendly than others, and had a gate to Fidonet to boot. Also sending UUCP email with bang paths. Those were the days...
...of stone knives and bearskins.
Typo Boy - May 23, 2008 12:59:40 pm PDT #6382 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Ah if we are talking walking uphill both ways:
I once worked on a VAX with 1 meg of RAM...
shared with 250 other users...
... and accessed over 9.6Kbaud modem via a VT100 terminal (not an emulator, an actual VT100)...
I'm not saying that can't be beaten. I'm sure there are a substantial number of Buffista s who have used slide rules and abacuses.
§ ita § - May 23, 2008 1:22:40 pm PDT #6383 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not saying that can't be beaten. I'm sure there are a substantial number of Buffista s who have used slide rules and abacuses.
Dude. Chisenbop.
Laga - May 23, 2008 2:18:03 pm PDT #6384 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I know chisenbop!
Theodosia - May 23, 2008 3:50:25 pm PDT #6385 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
We learned slide rules in high school. I am sooooo old.
Rob - May 23, 2008 5:16:27 pm PDT #6386 of 25501
How about an Atari 800 over an 300 baud acoustic coupler to an IBM 3081D shared by a couple of hundred people? I think your VAX trumps my IBM but I did have to shove the handset into the coupler. Good thing they were all the same shape back in those days.
DCJensen - May 23, 2008 5:20:16 pm PDT #6387 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I have a 110 baud acoustic coupler, made from a Heathkit I think, in my garage.
I may bring it to the FTF.
Hil R. - May 23, 2008 5:54:51 pm PDT #6388 of 25501
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My first computer was a VIC 20. First computer I bought myself was a Dell laptop that was about 12 inches and a modem that took four months worth of calls to tech support to get working. Cost about $1200 in hard-earned babysitting money. (Well, I paid $600 of it. I had a deal with my parents that I could get my own computer if I earned the money for half of it and they would pay for the other half. I don't think they expected me to actually be able to save $600. I babysat for some truly crazy people to get that computer.) I learned to program on the VIC 20, though, so that one's still my favorite. And it still works.
javachik - May 23, 2008 6:19:15 pm PDT #6389 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
First computer was bought through uni, in 1992 for $3,500. A PowerMac 7200. 32 MB HD, 8 MB RAM.