Formed in 1969, CompuServe went through many corporation transitions,
involving companies and people as diverse as H&R Block, Radio Shack,
the Associated Press and Mark Cuban.
Created originally with PDP-8s and PDP-15s as front-end routers as a
means of dial-up interconnection for businesses, they
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 th
Yes, that really was the cost but it wasn't for Compuserve, it was for a
local (Kenyan) ISP
On 25/04/2022 03:55, Kurt @ Gmail wrote:
Was that REALLY the cost for CompuServe? Yikes!
I was there at the beginning - I did CompuServe & Prodigy and even
dabbled in AOL Online briefly - which, years
>> Was that REALLY the cost for CompuServe? Yikes!
>
> This is from my bank account statement February 1997. That's the fee for
> January 1997 just for CompuServe. I also paid Deutsche Telekom by the minute
> in phone charges on top of that.
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> Was that REALLY the cost for CompuServe? Yikes!
This is from my bank account statement February 1997. That's the fee for
January 1997 just for CompuServe. I also paid Deutsche Telekom by the minute in
phone charges on top of that.
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Christof
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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 1
Was that REALLY the cost for CompuServe? Yikes!
I was there at the beginning - I did CompuServe & Prodigy and even
dabbled in AOL Online briefly - which, years later - all non-computer
literate people used AOL - and I knew to stay away. I did a little bit
of the Early BBS systems. And, I was d
Not sure if attachments work here. 02/02/98 28.8K Dial-In-Port $125 per
month
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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted Roche
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2022 4:03 PM
To: profox@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] Those were the days ... ISP charges
Who&#
Who's ever going to need more than 256 Kbps?
Puts my .42bis modem all to shame.
And, at $22.95/hour for CompuServe, this will be a real time saver!
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 11:09 AM Paul Newton wrote:
>
> From an ISP in Kenya ca. 2005
>
> What are the cost implications?
>
From an ISP in Kenya ca. 2005
What are the cost implications?
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They are so minimal, you won't believe it! For as little as US$ 200
per month you can get yourself a leased line of 64Kbps uplink and
256Kbps downlink.
Paul Newton
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