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Take away the position counter, and this would perfectly simulate trying to use a single-line BBS.
by barryrandall 2y ago
Take away the position counter, and this would perfectly simulate trying to use a single-line BBS.
- bb88 2y agoAbsolutely. I remember those days. Oh how my parents hated me for running up the long distance bills.
- nso 2y agoI see this mentioned a lot, but how large would you actually rack up the bills in today's dollars?
- LVB 2y agoI checked a bad/oops/“no more computer” month from my early 90’s youth and it would be about $250 today (1 month).
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoWhen I was in college, someone discovered that you could call 1-900 phone sex lines from the pay phones for the cost of a local call and the college would be billed for the phone charges since the phone was in their name. People were racking up thousands of dollars in charges until the school started placing "observers" near the phones to nab whoever was calling them. Made "examples" of a few unfortunate students until they could fix the problem internally.
- bb88 2y ago$200 roughly. https://www.amortization.org/inflation/amount.php?year=1984&amount=1 https://www.amortization.org/inflation/amount.php?year=1984&...