Goodbye Compuserve

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 >