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Originally Posted by rowan
Unless you had 'special' ways of calling numbers on the other side of the world for low or zero cost...  |
In fact, we did.
200 yards of phone cable - run from the college computer lab, through the drop ceiling, to the phone jack in the dean's office.
We'd dial-up BBS's in Simi Valley, CA from Toronto.
Blazing fast on the 2400baud modem, too.
On a good night we could d/l a grainy 250k GIF pic in about 20 mins.