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" Buzi wrote: Forget a modem too, as in those days a modem cost around 1 dollar per baud or more. The first 'affordable' ones came later actually, around 1986-87 as I recall. Six hundred bucks or a bit more for a 1200 BAUD modem. Which, was just as well I could not afford that either at the time, as I lived in the boondocks of East Texas and had no phone anyway as I was too cheap to pay line costs andreally did not need a damn phone. So My Vic 20 ended up as a adjunct to my amateur radio hobby as a packet radio and RTTY terminal. My FIRST experiences with BBS and FIDO (a form of what is known as USENET) were via VHF Packet radio and via HF Shortwave RTTY and later occasional HF packet radio stations. Talk about some slow data transfers. Course in those days it was mostly just reading bulletin boards and FIDO net type traffic. My first modem was a 300 baud rate with error correction. Calling another computer usually meant typing something similar to (*68, 6155228895) after all, you had to turn off call waiting so you didn't get kicked in the middle of a transfer. I ran a BBS using spitfire BBS from my home, ahem, trading things. It's funny how modern internet forums are very similar to old school BBS software. Except for the whole trading equal volume of files, We let the FTP server guys have that crap. God I'm feeling old, but I'm only 36. There comes a time thief when jewels cease to sparkle, gold loses it's luster, throne room becomes a prison, and all that's left is a father's love for his child. - King Osric	Posted by DorenAlexander#7040 on Jul 4, 2013, 6:38:58 PM Quote this Post
" CharanJaydemyr wrote: California Games, Sk8 or Die... Ported the Apple ][ version of that title @ Epyx around '87...	Posted by RogueMage#7621 on Jul 4, 2013, 8:07:42 PM Quote this Post
Wow... the days of modems and BBS. I remember going to BBS's and trading files. A 1 mg file would take a minimum of 15 minutes. Afterwards, the internet became more public and you had to know a little command line UNIX to get your mail and hit the newsgroups. AOL was one of the first providers back then that had a gui. I dropped them after the first month when I heard the horror stories of people spending $200 - $500 a month because they went over 40 megs and getting charged for every meg over it. And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit - The Tick	Posted by magree#3223 on Jul 4, 2013, 10:50:27 PM Quote this Post