My first computer and modem cost me about $1,800. It had no
hard drive, a 720 KB floppy and 1.2 MB of RAM and a 4.7 MHz
16 bit processor. The modem was a WorldPort external on the
serial port at 2400 bps but it did have compression and
could get 4800 bits. It was DOS only but WORKS 2.0 ran on
it.


"Greg B" wrote in message
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| "Jay Honeck" wrote in message
| news:wsbHf.759917$x96.396114@attbi_s72...
| Compuserve! Now *there* is a blast from the past.
|
| Remember "Prodigy"? Owned by Sears, Roebuck, of all
people! That was my
| first venture into the on-line world...
|
| IIRC, there was another competitor of Prodigy and
CompuServe around then but
| can't think of its name. It used Gopher searches. Also,
BBS's were big back
| then and some of them would sync their messages together
nightly using Fido
| net. Most would run on 1,200 bps, some were only 300 but
the 'good' ones
| supported 2,400. Most could only have one person dial in
at a time.
|
| - I miss my 300bps dial-up modem. (yeah, right...)
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