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 started renting off-hours access to hobbyists and stuff sort of just grew from there. Great write-up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe I used TapCI$ to minimize dial-up time, reading and responding offline and connecting only long enough to send and receive. 76400,2503 was the number I used during the FoxForum heyday, but I had used, and lost, a three-digit number in the way-back-when. I seem to remember that dial-up access was through one of several different networks. Some were modem banks in the back warehouse-storage areas in Sears Roebuck stores. On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 10:55 PM Kurt @ Gmail <kurthwe...@gmail.com> 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 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 doing online banking with Chemical > bank via modem & later as Chase Online via true internet (when they > bought over Chemical & MannyHanny) - so, I was doing online banking > before most common folks. > > Yeah - the days of Modems - what FUN!!! > > Funny side story. Its the reason when I was married - that my wife (now > Ex) - INSISTED I get my own phone line - because I was doing the modem > stuff - and people could not call in! > > :-) > > Fun times indeed... > > -K > > On 4/23/2022 1:03 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > > Who's ever going to need more than 256 Kbps? > > > > Puts my .42bis modem all to shame. > > > > And, at $22.95/hour for CompuServe, this will be a real time saver! > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 11:09 AM Paul Newton <paul.newton.h...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> From an ISP in Kenya ca. 2005 > >> > >> What are the cost implications? > >> =============================== > >> > >> They are so minimal, you won't believe it! For as little as US$ 200 > >> per month you can get yourself a leased line of 64Kbps uplink and > >> 256Kbps downlink. > >> > >> Paul Newton > >> > >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/CACW6n4tGjxuAnEy+C2K85qq+2iECiaoz2SRk=pxa0fzk1mz...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
