The Good Old Days
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <1992Feb02.105157.9904@clarinet.com> brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes: >>(In the early days, Henry used to get his feed by manually dialing decvax >>on his phone, and hooking up his 300 baud modem. [To be poetic, I imagine >>a rotary phone. Was it, Henry?]) >Sure was. Touchtone didn't exist at U of T then. >We were awfully happy when we got an autodialing 1200-baud modem. Oooh, you had a modem! Luxury! I used to get a news feed transmitted in morse code by an epileptic chicken through a 150 mile piece of string with a tin can at each end. I had to get up at 2 AM every day, strap on the tin can, and type the articles into a TS-1000, using an oscilliscope as a display. If one of our users wanted to post, I had to write it on an 8-inch floppy using a refrigerator magnet. Kids got it easy these days, they do. -- Kenneth Herron kherron@ms.uky.edu University of Kentucky +1 606 257 2975 Department of Mathematics "You don't carve 'ARGH,' you just say it!" "Perhaps he was dictating?"