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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: the early teletype
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Dennis Boone wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> > Sorta like my Vic 20!
>
> Only with two tape drives and an order of magnitude more expensive.

I bought a modem card for the Vic 20. I'd plug in the modem, load
the terminal program from cassette, dial the university computer with
the rotary dial, wait for an answer, plug the RJ plug into the modem,
and then read the university ARPAnet feed, 24 chars/line or somesuch, on
a black-and-white teevee.

Ah, the days when you could buy computer equipment from a toy store.

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