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Originally posted by VirtuMike
110 baud acoustic coupler dumb terminal connecting to a pdp-11 at my dad's office.
Adventure ruled.
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Ah my youth!
My dad had this phone at home that was hooked up to a huge computer in our house. I don't remember, some sort of Vax machine or something. You'd pick up the phone, dial the number, listen for the screech and then lift up this button where you usually hung up the phone. Then you set the receiver on the desk until you were done.
After that came the BBS years. Stories too ugly to share, including my first foray into the alt.sex newsgroups and learning about things I'd never even heard of before.
Then the Compuserve years. I think I was up to 1200 baud by then though. Was a sysop there for a long time until they dragged me kicking and screaming onto that thing called the World Web or something.
We were just talking the other day about how exicted I was to get a new computer.. an 8086 with a whopping 40 meg HD. My hubby just went to replace a 10gig drive on a computer and work and found out you can't buy them that small at most stores anymore. LOL! That's just sad.
