Tom Baker, the best Doctor of all?  I'm in, grabbing popcorn.

I recall using GEnie (at least once) and I recall hearing about Delphi.   I
was trying to find early versions of their logo, such as from early
advertisements - but so far can only find "late model" versions.

Then I started thinking about "how were they even advertised? having lots
of phone numbers in different area codes would have been expensive, maybe
they only advertised in a few cities back in those days?"   But I don't
remember any flyers about it - I think we just knew it from the local
Computer Club, word of mouth.

(I also remember Intel coming to early computers clubs, and raffling or
tossing out a processor after a talk)





On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 10:38 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
> > Hey all, was Delphi accessible as a bulletin board before 1990?
> > I'm only finding logos and info about Delphi post-1990.
> > But for early 1980s, what as Delphi?  Was it a telnet-sort-of-thing only
> > accessed only from universities?
> > I've searched through early BYTE and PC Mag and just not finding any
> > advertisements about it.
>
> They started in 1981, and expanded in 1983.
> They apparently still exist.
> http://forums.delphiforums.com/delphihistory/messages/10/1
>
> Competing with AOL, Prodigy, Netcom, etc.
>
> In those days, the internet was not open to the public (guvmint, academia,
> military, etc.), so, to some extent those "services" were trying to
> compete with the internet.
>
>
>
> Also, in your historical research, if you have not already done so, you
> and your daughter have got to watch "Hyperland".
> It was a 50 minute long BBC documentary in 1991? (PRE WWW) about the
> future of the internet.  It was written by Douglas Adams and Ted Nelson,
> and starring Tom Baker.
>
> https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland
>
> If you want subtitles/captions, 6 years ago, I created an .SRT (captions
> file of it!
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hCJm9ZEADCblVSVlBxdmZyREU/view?usp=drive_web
> (400MB
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hCJm9ZEADCblVSVlBxdmZyREU/view?usp=drive_web(400MB>
> video with subtitles burned in)
> .SRT file:
> http://www.xenosoft.com/HyperlandCAPS_En_US_0_77.srt
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred                 ci...@xenosoft.com
>

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