In Kenya at the time we couldn't reliably get software updates and the
like without the use of something like GetRight (sometimes we had to
resume downloads several times before they completed)
On 25/04/2022 09:07, Alan Bourke wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2022, at 3:55 AM, Kurt @ Gmail wrote:
Was that REALLY the cost for CompuServe? Yikes!
In theearly 1980s, in the US, yep. You could download a copy of the 20c print
edition of the NYT which would take maybe 5 hours at $5 an hour.
By the time I was using it in the UK in the mid 1990s it was about £10 a month
with phone call charges on top.
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