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Ooohh, neato. CompuServe was the way we first got online at my house, in 1992. I still have a copy of CompuServe Magazine from July 1992 [0], which describes
by amatecha 5y ago
Ooohh, neato. CompuServe was the way we first got online at my house, in 1992. I still have a copy of CompuServe Magazine from July 1992 [0], which describes their online shopping portal - quite impressive for the time! Funny bit on page 8: "My best advice for people thinking of entering game programming is --don't! If you're a good programmer, you'll take a pay cut of at least 25% to work in the games field".
[0] http://www.vtda.org/pubs/CompuServe_Magazine/CompuServe_Magazine_1992-07.pdf http://www.vtda.org/pubs/CompuServe_Magazine/CompuServe_Maga...
- FartyMcFarter 5y agoThese days lots of people would love to work on games for a 25% pay cut, or even a much larger one. Surely this was the case back then too :)
- draw_down 5y ago
- forgotmypw17 5y agoI like how one of the reader letters is about "Classic Computing", already a thing in '92: >I enjoyed reminiscing with your article "Gone But Not Forgotten" in the May issue (p.18). I don't use my old machines regularly, but I periodically pull out my Franklin Ace 100 (Apple II compatible) that sits in my basement. It was a powerful machine at the time with a huge 64K. At one time, I hooked up six 5 1/4" floppy drives to run a computer bulletin board from my home. Today I can fit all of that on a single 3 1/2" disk and still have room for my System 7 software. Thanks for the memories. >Jeffrey I. Algazy >New Haven, Conn.
- jacquesm 5y agoI wonder how Jeffrey I. Algazy feels about his 128G micro SD card.
- forgotmypw17 5y agoWell, it can hold more than 88 888 floppies' worth of data!