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On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:29:17 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Proably the most fun computer was the VIC-20 and when I upgraded to
the Commodore 64 I was in hog heaven - man, could I do some stuff with
that. It still runs.


Yes, and it was a great glass teletype for logging onto Compuserve and
some of the early Bulletin Board systems. Those were the days. Look
how far we've come and how little has changed. :-) I once caught
something resembling a virus on the "64".

There used to be a company that offered a service close to universal
connectivity. You dialed into one number and from there you could
connect to a variety of different systems. Can't remember the name of
it but at the time it seemed like a great concept. Old stuff to those
on the old ARPANET I suppose.