> my mind would be reeling with the possibilities Right?? When I was about 14 or so I got ahold of my very first modem - a 300bps acoustic coupler; that beast

> my mind would be reeling with the possibilities Right?? When I was about 14 or so I got ahold of my very first modem - a 300bps acoustic coupler; that beast must have weighed 20 pounds. I don't know what I was expecting when we connected to a local BBS for the first time, but when I saw characters from a remote computer show up on my screen, it was like the world shifted. I had no way to grasp the implications of it all, but I could sense it was significant, and it impacted me so strongly that that memory is still crystal clear 30 years later.