Subj : Re: This base
To   : bcw142
From : alliekbean
Date : Wed Dec 14 2016 12:39:00

  Re: Re: This base
  By: bcw142 to Pequito on Tue Dec 13 2016 22:34:00

 >  Pe>  al>  > What do you mean minus all the horror/scary stuff, that was the
 >  Pe>  al>  > 70 some of the 90s really. :P .. Guess you grew up in
 >  Pe>  al>  > pleasantville?
 >
 >  Pe>  al> Haha! Well you know how nostalgia is, you only remember the good
 >  Pe>  al> part Things used to be a lot simpler, though, that's for sure. Of
 >  Pe>  al> course w didn't walk around with computers in our pockets capable
 >  Pe>  al> of accessing the sum of human knowledge at a moment's notice.
 >
 >  Pe> Back then we barely had computers in the home and rotary phones will
 >  Pe> still hip!
 >
 > Hmm, here rotary phones went out with the 1960's, They were pretty much all
 > replaced with touch tone by the mid-1970's. The Late 1970's saw TV remotes
 > come in (with Star Wars). Built my first computer in the late 1970's and had
 > 4 by 1983 (8080/Z80, TI99.4A, C64, ZX80). A lot of money went to Compuserve
 > that year. Then got the Amiga 1000, started a number of BBS, dropped
 > Compuserve. Used a number of Fidonet based BBS in the area. My BBS evolved
 > and ended with Waffle based UUCP setup in the late 1999's.
 >
 > ...Rotary phones were never 'hip'!

In my house we had mostly touch tone phones. Although I do remember my
grandmother having the big, clunky rotary phones. I was fascinated with them.
We didn't have a TV remote ourselves until we got cable in the mid to late 80s
with the little box with red LED numbers. Up until that time we had a TV with
knobs you had to use to change the channels.

When I was pretty young, I used to play around on Prodigy. We had a 2400 baud
modem then, and I remember seeing ads on Prodigy for 9600 baud modems. I always
pestered my dad for one, but he said they were too expensive. When I was a
little older and we had a computer running Windows 3.0 and later 3.1, I had a
CompuServe account and played around on that a good bit. While it was all neat,
nothing really compared to calling the local BBSes and socializing there. I
made tons of friends through BBSes back in the day.

It was such an interesting time, even if rotary phones weren't ever hip. :)

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