Thread: Sending an Email in 1984....

Not just a glitch would boot you off, anytime someone picked up the phone! I grew up in a house with 8 people, how often do you think I got kicked off the internet in the middle of something?!

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?

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 Ernie1980

Not just a glitch would boot you off, anytime someone picked up the phone! I grew up in a house with 8 people, how often do you think I got kicked off the internet in the middle of something?!

Yeah, I bet you were lucky if you even got to see the naked girl's shoulders!

5 mb hard drive being shipped by IBM 1956.