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The cost of a 8 hours phone call would be huge, at least in my country. Of course if the company is paying for it, great! They would have to install a separate
by pmontra 3y ago
The cost of a 8 hours phone call would be huge, at least in my country. Of course if the company is paying for it, great! They would have to install a separate phone line not only to ease billing but also because you'd be unreachable all day long. I remember that the fixed costs were not negligible but again, if the company is paying for it out of the money they make selling your work, that's OK.
- zoeysmithe 3y agoI think in the old, old days you'd do a batch job. So you'd connect, then upload/download at whatever baud speed was accepted. Your modem would only connect for x amount of minutes. Later, more 'always on' was possible. In the US, the phone system was setup in a way that local calls, defined by geographic rings based on switching stations, were 0 cents a minute after the initial first minute. So that allowed things like BBS culture to thrive.