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Even if you were there at the time and had the equipment, don’t forget how expensive it was for someone to get on the service. I think it’s one of the main reas
by adamomada 3y ago
Even if you were there at the time and had the equipment, don’t forget how expensive it was for someone to get on the service. I think it’s one of the main reasons (local) BBSes caught on: it was something to do with your $200 1200 bps modem that didn’t cost much
- mistrial9 3y ago.. definitely paid around $400 for a modem in the early 90s; 9600 baud with error correction and link safeties
- ghaff 3y agoEven relatively local BBSs could rack up the phone charges if you didn't have a very local dial-in. Intra-state long distance wasn't necessarily much cheaper than interstate. But the hourly charges by a service like Compuserve, especially at higher bit rates, were a lot.
- pastage 3y agoI racked up +$300 in monthly phone charges in my early teens, that was an early and hard lesson of the value of flat fees.
- 01100011 3y agoMy grandpa disowned me after running up $300 on qlink and another $300 in phone charges to BBSes when I was 12. I talked to him briefly on the phone twice after that in the next decade or so before he died and he never got over it.
- cdchn 3y agoThats kind of depressing to burn a grandkid over a $600 honest mistake.