Thread: Sending an Email in 1984....

I can certainly relate to all of the above!
Spent some time at Univac in the60's. Their idea of a mini computer was three feet high and made to fit through a 24 inch ship hatch and some others about the same size that may still be running our air traffic control.
Sometimes had to debug the ancient Univac One mainframe...walk around in the CPU with a dust rag , power off, and remove stray insects.
~Richard

Originally Posted by Utopian

My high school had a teletype for interacting by modem with a computer in LaCrosse Wisconsin. I would usually spend more than half of the hour of the independent study "class" dialing the phone hoping to get connected. For that reason, manually doing punch cards actually was a faster way to get programming done. Anybody need anything programmed in Basic or Fortran IV?

I could key on a card punch machine and never look at the keypad.

When I took a data run to the computing center I had to carry two boxes of those cards. They were a bit heavy. Then we got a mag tape machine and I did a happy dance.

Internet? Baud? E Mail?

In my day we just used the jungle telegraph some drums or maybe smoke signals. They got the message.

Originally Posted by Phrank

How to Send an Email in 1984...yup, you could, at about 300 baud rate, those were the days....

Pssst....I think his password was, "1,2,3,4"....

Gee & I have been still using Pony Express. I guess I should get the Oracle newsletter & read page 182...................

Still remember good old Compuserve @ 300 baud. You could watch the letters come up on the green screen like someone was typing them.

The last I looked Dial-up is still available here $15.00 per month.

IF I HAD TO I could use Dial-up. I had to use it 8 years ago after the divorce and I used it for about 2 years. Not the best, but it got me by. It all depends on what you can do with or without.