Goodbye Compuserve

[Mark Davidson]

Does anyone have any idea what they are going to do with all those old machines?

Mark

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Ethan Dicks<ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/5/09, Ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
>> The other factor back then too, often your nearest data centre,
>> was still a goodly sum long distance call.
>
> Maybe in some parts (like the complaint on the discussion thread on
> Slashdot about the PA customer who only had two numbers to call in
> their area code, and both were long-distance from their house), but
> since I grew up a few miles from the main building, we never had a
> problem in Central Ohio with free access numbers.  There was great
> coverage close to home. I never even used to get busy signals, not
> even when the service was at the peak of its popularity 25 years ago.
> Of course, paying per hour meant that people got on, did their thing,
> then got off.  BBSes were another thing entirely - those were hard to
> get into back then, except when Star Trek was on TV.  Mysteriously,
> the modems were easier to reach at that time of the evening.
>
> -ethan
>