I bought a mate's ZX81 for ~#40, I think, perhaps that included a 16K RAM pack, when he bought a Spectrum. I grabbed a Speccy when the 48K came down to #125 (from #175 at launch), probably early 1984. In ~1986 I was then fortunate enough to win a 300 and 75/1500 half-duplex modem in a Your Spectrum competition, and from that I got access to a bulletin board called The Gnome At Home. I also would occasionally pop in and get slaughtered on AberMUD. I did bounce around between PAD prompts on various systems in late 1988, which was I guess the first real internet experience, even if it's nothing like modern day internet.
-- Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
Even 1997 when I first got on (after Compuserve in the '80s and then BBs) it was still nothing like now. No videos except animated GIFs, no Google, no Firefox, no Chrome, no YouTube, no high speed access unless you were at a university, no Facebook or Twitter or any other social networks, and you needed a real computer; no phones or tablets on the net then. And there are a thousand times as many people on it now.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday July 03 2017, @09:26PM (1 child)
I bought a mate's ZX81 for ~#40, I think, perhaps that included a 16K RAM pack, when he bought a Spectrum. I grabbed a Speccy when the 48K came down to #125 (from #175 at launch), probably early 1984. In ~1986 I was then fortunate enough to win a 300 and 75/1500 half-duplex modem in a Your Spectrum competition, and from that I got access to a bulletin board called The Gnome At Home. I also would occasionally pop in and get slaughtered on AberMUD. I did bounce around between PAD prompts on various systems in late 1988, which was I guess the first real internet experience, even if it's nothing like modern day internet.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday July 04 2017, @05:09PM
Even 1997 when I first got on (after Compuserve in the '80s and then BBs) it was still nothing like now. No videos except animated GIFs, no Google, no Firefox, no Chrome, no YouTube, no high speed access unless you were at a university, no Facebook or Twitter or any other social networks, and you needed a real computer; no phones or tablets on the net then. And there are a thousand times as many people on it now.
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