[Coco] Ebay chuckle of the day

[Little John]

I was still using the DC Modem Pak 300 baud P.O.S. (and that's not short for 
Point of Sale) :) But I was using a third party communication program

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Theodore (Alex) Evans" <alxevans at concentric.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Ebay chuckle of the day


> On 10/11/2010 03:18 PM, Little John wrote:
>> Actually, these very likely could have been used to access the internet 
>> via services such as Delphi... It would have been painfully slow, but 
>> still... I used a modem with a CoCo 3 to access the internet via Delphi 
>> sometime in the 1990's (unless I am remembering wrong... which I could 
>> be..)
>
> You're probably right, but by the time online communities like Delphi 
> started permitting subscribers to easily access even parts of the internet 
> through them nearly everyone had already upgraded to smart modems that 
> were faster (1200+ bps) to boot.
>
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