Wayne.B wrote:
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.


I used to dial into the actual NSA from a phone number assigned to me as
an outside contractor. When we moved to North Florida, I was assigned a
phone number there. It was only good for email and some controlled
message boards, but it was kinda fun.

In the 1980s, I was a partner in a rather infamous dial up chat board
that started out with four incoming phone lines, grew to eight, then 16,
then 32. That was even more fun. This was 1984 or so, I think. Maybe a
year later.