Acoustic or direct connect? I remember thinking what hot shit I was because I didn't have to jam a headset into an acoustic modem like a lot of other people did.
Direct. I missed acoustic by --> <-- that much. However my first modem had one 3-way switch. Send/off/Receive. I still had to dial manually, listen for the tone and flip the switch. It was years before I upgraded to a 1200 with a command-set to dial from the terminal program. So many years, in fact, that many BBSes were refusing connections from 300bps users. ;)
day of the C=64, the CoCo and the Amiga. ;PDon't forget CP/M. (KayPro & Osborne were the 2 most popular.)
Eeep, so true! Good ol' KayPro.
Errr, wait, Linux Functionality. Uhm, uhm... Gee, isn't Linux today so much more functional than those computers back then. *cough*
Seriously though my first introduction to Unix was someone running a BBS written in Perl on a 'nix variant. I don't recall what it was. I do recall a friend of mine showing me his Minix machine. It was awesome as it had nethack. :D
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