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 Happy 30th Birthday to the Commodore 64! It's hard to believe it's been three decades. I remember when it came out; I was in the middle of programming my first games for the Apple ][. Soon, they were ported to the 64. Lots of bad memories of file transfers bit at a time via the Apple's joystick port to the 64's IO port So next one ..  |
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I think Mclaver beats me, but in 1978 I was a data-comms analyst with an oil company, running X.25 packet switch lines to the Far East, and hanging out on BBS's.
We would sometimes telnet 'by mistake' into the Gopher and WAIS servers at USA universities. By 1981 we had the yummy IBM PC, and those excellent RS232 serial ports. The UK first got 'commercial' internet in 1991/2, via Demon Internet Services, but Compu$erve was much more interesting because of their global access gateways. With a serial port, 'Buzzbox' 300 baud modem, and screwdriver, we could connect from almost anywhere in the world using a Mk I Psion Organiser battery driven hand-held terminal. Black magic, it was. |
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Back un 1978 , nice
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