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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pgerassi who wrote (125776)	10/11/2000 11:01:10 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1570751

RE: Stone Age Usenet connections. The only thing I could find in the 1985-1990 time period was either FIDO net access, and it was limited in my area with out a long distance phone call, or you had to agree to be a node on the backbone. And that required the ability to archive at least a week of data that was coming through at 20 megabytes (I believe) a day. So you had to have, oh 200 megabytes of free disk space in a time when 100 megabyte drives were real expensive. I tried to purchase dial up, and it almost worked out, until the company management squelched the idea, I just couldn't convince them that I wasn't trying to hack into their system. Seems that they had seen "Wargames" and knew how those things worked...