> On Feb 17, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Gene LeDuc <gle...@sdsu.edu> wrote:
>
> I was a student worker at a computer lab at USC in the 70s and a buddy had a
> system operator job at ISI in Marina Del Rey. One day he connected to his
> office from my lab via a 300baud acoustic modem and then got on the ARPA-NET.
> From there he connected to a system called ATLAS in the UK. I had no idea
> what to do at the prompt so I typed
>
> > ?
>
> to get list of commands. My global eyes were opened when the response was
>
> Pardon?
>
> instead of the usual rude or cryptic error message that I was used to. There
> was a big world out there and we were definitely not in Kansas anymore!
It was about 1980. My C-128 came with one of those CIS snap packs to let you
test connecting to the 'net via Compuserve. So I connected with my 300baud
modem and..whoa!!!
When I got my next computer (and first portable) shortly thereafter (a TRS
Model 100) I got acoustic cups for it, and suddenly I was connected from
anywhere and everywhere there was a phone - including from my job at a Fotomat
booth (remember those?) :-)
Anne
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