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Old 01-25-2007   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bbA2
twas about 1983 or 1984ish and I had just gotten my first modem, I believe it was a 300/1200 baud modem. I was a member of a local 'hacker' group, this was before such teminology was taboo and it was more of a user group that shared software and ideas...
When I got hold of my first modem I searched for a BBS and got to log into a 2 line BBS, membership was free, the long hours waiting for one of the lines to be free were hard.
Then I got into a paid service, they had 5 lines and on later times they got up to 15, the hours I spend chatting in the middle of the night were very expensive, the phone company charged by the minute at those years, and having a 1200 baud modem was terrible for downloading files, arghhh.
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