Were You A Disney Park Fan Before The Internet?

mindflipper · Post by **mindflipper** » May Tue 31, 2011 11:32 am

Jacca5660 wrote:I must be ahead of the curve. We were on AOL when it had per minute charges. I had friends in HS (that's the 70's folks) Who showed me how to baud on the phone companies net. It helped my step-dad was a phone (AT&T pioneer)company engineer. I think my first modem had two cans and some string!!

Modem? What's a modem?

theBIGyowski · Post by **theBIGyowski** » May Tue 31, 2011 11:55 am

mindflipper wrote:
Jacca5660 wrote:I must be ahead of the curve. We were on AOL when it had per minute charges. I had friends in HS (that's the 70's folks) Who showed me how to baud on the phone companies net. It helped my step-dad was a phone (AT&T pioneer)company engineer. I think my first modem had two cans and some string!!
Modem? What's a modem?

I could be wrong...

But I believe it was an old, old wooden ship...used in the Civil War era.

...or is that Diversity?

figmentaholic · Post by **figmentaholic** » May Tue 31, 2011 12:15 pm

Jacca5660 wrote:I must be ahead of the curve. We were on AOL when it had per minute charges. I had friends in HS (that's the 70's folks) Who showed me how to baud on the phone companies net. It helped my step-dad was a phone (AT&T pioneer)company engineer. I think my first modem had two cans and some string!!

Haha, I remember I went over to my neighbor's house and got onto their Compuserve first, and then when I got to college I used the BBS system to connect.

Does anyone around here remember BBS's? Or am I just that old? *gets out a cane*

Amy · Post by **Amy** » May Tue 31, 2011 12:19 pm

Jacca5660 wrote:I must be ahead of the curve. We were on AOL when it had per minute charges. I had friends in HS (that's the 70's folks) Who showed me how to baud on the phone companies net. It helped my step-dad was a phone (AT&T pioneer)company engineer. I think my first modem had two cans and some string!!

I know how you pride yourself on keeping things running ~ are you still using that string and cans set-up

Jacca5660 · Post by **Jacca5660** » May Tue 31, 2011 12:31 pm

figmentaholic wrote:
Jacca5660 wrote:I must be ahead of the curve. We were on AOL when it had per minute charges. I had friends in HS (that's the 70's folks) Who showed me how to baud on the phone companies net. It helped my step-dad was a phone (AT&T pioneer)company engineer. I think my first modem had two cans and some string!!

Haha, I remember I went over to my neighbor's house and got onto their Compuserve first, and then when I got to college I used the BBS system to connect.

Does anyone around here remember BBS's? Or am I just that old? *gets out a cane*

The old Bulletin Board system?? I also remember using the Cal Tech web crawler!!

Amy wrote:
Jacca5660 wrote:I must be ahead of the curve. We were on AOL when it had per minute charges. I had friends in HS (that's the 70's folks) Who showed me how to baud on the phone companies net. It helped my step-dad was a phone (AT&T pioneer)company engineer. I think my first modem had two cans and some string!!
I know how you pride yourself on keeping things running ~ are you still using that string and cans set-up

No!! My dog ate the string, so I had to upgrade to a rope and coffee can system!!

figmentaholic · Post by **figmentaholic** » May Tue 31, 2011 12:37 pm

Jacca5660 wrote:
figmentaholic wrote:
Jacca5660 wrote:I must be ahead of the curve. We were on AOL when it had per minute charges. I had friends in HS (that's the 70's folks) Who showed me how to baud on the phone companies net. It helped my step-dad was a phone (AT&T pioneer)company engineer. I think my first modem had two cans and some string!!

Haha, I remember I went over to my neighbor's house and got onto their Compuserve first, and then when I got to college I used the BBS system to connect.

Does anyone around here remember BBS's? Or am I just that old? *gets out a cane*
The old Bulletin Board system?? I also remember using the Cal Tech web crawler!!

Hehe yeah, this would have been about 1993 or 1994 I would guess when I started college. No one wanted to call me anyways so I didn't care about using my phone line. I thought I was hot stuff when while I was there I got a 9600 baud modem. it was the fastest at the time. My dad was replacing his and gave it to me, or else I wouldn't have been able to afford it, haha! I think he was getting a 14.4...

Ah, those were the days... Windows 3.1, then OH WOW Windows 95. *happysighs* my inner geek is happy reminiscing.

theBIGyowski · Post by **theBIGyowski** » May Tue 31, 2011 12:44 pm

I was going through middle school while you folks were in college...so I got to see all of this from that perspective. I remember moving from command line based computers to the Apple computers to the simple Windows machines.

Amy · Post by **Amy** » May Tue 31, 2011 12:45 pm

figmentaholic wrote:Hehe yeah, this would have been about 1993 or 1994 I would guess when I started college. No one wanted to call me anyways so I didn't care about using my phone line. I thought I was hot stuff when while I was there I got a 9600 baud modem. it was the fastest at the time. My dad was replacing his and gave it to me, or else I wouldn't have been able to afford it, haha! I think he was getting a 14.4...
Ah, those were the days... Windows 3.1, then OH WOW Windows 95. *happysighs* my inner geek is happy reminiscing.

I'm thinking you might be the only one missing those slower processing days

theBIGyowski · Post by **theBIGyowski** » May Tue 31, 2011 12:45 pm

Here's something else some of you may enjoy...not sure who has seen it yet...

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx

Jacca5660 · Post by **Jacca5660** » May Tue 31, 2011 1:15 pm

Amy wrote:
figmentaholic wrote:Hehe yeah, this would have been about 1993 or 1994 I would guess when I started college. No one wanted to call me anyways so I didn't care about using my phone line. I thought I was hot stuff when while I was there I got a 9600 baud modem. it was the fastest at the time. My dad was replacing his and gave it to me, or else I wouldn't have been able to afford it, haha! I think he was getting a 14.4...
Ah, those were the days... Windows 3.1, then OH WOW Windows 95. *happysighs* my inner geek is happy reminiscing.
I'm thinking you might be the only one missing those slower processing days

I miss the day I got my 20 MEG hard drive and wonder how in the world was I going to use "ALL" of that space. I'm saying that machine was FAST it was 100 meg machine!! Yea I had the 28 baud modem (Insert Tim Allen bark!!) and I could do things with that machine that I had never even heard of before!! I still sometimes miss my old VIC 64! It was all so much simpler then, you could go on the "INTERNET" (it was a new term) with out any kind of antiviral program or anything.

I think this is when I went from DOS to Windows. I thought it was Star Trek!!

mindflipper · Post by **mindflipper** » May Tue 31, 2011 2:07 pm

theBIGyowski wrote:Here's something else some of you may enjoy...not sure who has seen it yet...

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx

Hey, don't knock the old C64! I owned one long, long time ago...(showing my age)....

theBIGyowski · Post by **theBIGyowski** » May Tue 31, 2011 2:33 pm

I loved our old C64!

I wish I had the money (read: approval from DW) to buy that new suped-up C64 machine!

mindflipper · Post by **mindflipper** » May Tue 31, 2011 2:51 pm

theBIGyowski wrote:I loved our old C64!

I wish I had the money (read: approval from DW) to buy that new suped-up C64 machine!

They're still being made?!?

theBIGyowski · Post by **theBIGyowski** » May Tue 31, 2011 2:58 pm

mindflipper wrote:
theBIGyowski wrote:I loved our old C64!

I wish I had the money (read: approval from DW) to buy that new suped-up C64 machine!
They're still being made?!?

No...but the guys at the link I gave are building machines that run inside of the old C64 keyboards.

mindflipper · Post by **mindflipper** » May Tue 31, 2011 3:40 pm

theBIGyowski wrote:
mindflipper wrote:
theBIGyowski wrote:I loved our old C64!

I wish I had the money (read: approval from DW) to buy that new suped-up C64 machine!
They're still being made?!?
No...but the guys at the link I gave are building machines that run inside of the old C64 keyboards.

LOL, I wonder what I have ever done with my old one and its detached 5.25" disk drive...

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