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Post by homebase on Feb 1, 2009 9:18:09 GMT -5
1981 primitive Internet report on KRON
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Post by brassmonkey on Feb 1, 2009 10:10:54 GMT -5
Amazing how fast that technology changed! Now print newspapers are going out of business because of people getting their news online..
One of the guys interviewed said something profound, and he didn't realize at the time just how profound it would be-"We're not doing this to make money..." Oh, I'll bet you wish you hadn't said that...
I started using computers in 1981, programming Basic on a Texas Instruments TI 99/4A, but my first modem wasn't that primitive.. When I first got a modem it was for an Atari 800XL, and it was a 300 baud modem that made the funny dial up sound you hear in the movie Wargames.. I never was able to read news online then. I just surfed BBS's.
Now we have DSL, which is amazing with its always-on Internet connection..
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Post by homebase on Feb 4, 2009 10:14:27 GMT -5
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Post by brassmonkey on Feb 4, 2009 10:33:57 GMT -5
That's great! I love looking back at how insane things were.. I had a Tandy 1000 TL/2 when I first joined the Army, and it was state of the art!! My first processor was the 8088, then I had an 80286, graduated to the 80386 after my buddy in the Army got one and was the talk of the town!! Then I got a 486 WITH A MATH COPROCESSOR even! So it was a 486 DX, not an SX ghetto model with no math coprocessor..
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