If the FCC Had Regulated the Internet From the Start [nightmare]

Slashdot ^ | 12/26/10 | timothy

[Cementjungle]

I jumped in with the TRS-80 model I. I had two of them, wrote some terminal software in assembler so they could talk to each other... end eventually allow me to dial into the mainframe I supported at my day job. Fun stuff.

[windsorknot]

I jumped in with the TRS-80 model I.

You did jump in early.

[ADemocratNoMore]

> $500 hard drive

$500 hard drive ?.
I think you forgot a zero. $5,000 sounds more like it.

[antiRepublicrat]

I remember downloading at blazing speeds with my 300 baud modem.

So do I. Strange that it was normal to watch text disply slowly across the screen. Even funnier that this behavior is often duplicated in movies where supposedly much higher tech is being used.