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Comment Re:How I first got introduced to the Internet (Score 1) 387

We used 9600 baud terminals connected to a mainframe in the 1970's and19.2K terminals in the early 1980's when I worked at a company that made computer terminals. The modem I used at home in the early 1980's was 150 / 300 baud. I have no idea what the internet connection was but emails were sent in batches so you had to wait a hour of so for a response.

Comment Re:Third and fourth groups (Score 1) 387

During the first two years of college we used punched cards to program in FORTRAN. One day a few years ago at Fry's I saw a box labelled FOTRAN for Visual Studio and thought about buying it. In the last two years of college we used internet terminals when it was call DARPNET or ARPANET. My first home computer was a TRS-80.

Comment Re:How I first got introduced to the Internet (Score 4, Informative) 387

I started using the internet around 1978 when I was in college. We had super fast 9600 baud terminals back then and about a dozen Universities were connected to the internet at that time. After graduation I had Compuserve which if I remember right it costs ten dollars a month plus additional time while online. It the 90's AOL bought Compuserve and I switched over to Netscape for email. During most of the 80's I used dial up bulletin boards for games and discussion boards.

Comment Re:Ptheh. (Score 1) 166

I did see a show where they retrieved a piece of metal from the bottom of the ocean and determined that the metal was brittle in cold water. In this show they thought the metal was weak and that is why the rivets popped off. If the rivets didn't pop off the Titanic would have floated a few hours longer. They also mentioned the shipyard used steel created with a new manufacturing process.

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