“Never trust a computer tech whose experience doesn’t include surfing the BBSes on a 1200-baud Hayes POTS modem.”
Youngster! Try 110 on a Teletype ASR-33.
“Try 110 on a Teletype ASR-33.”
At this point I should confess and repent. I think I started something which can’t be stopped now. When I got the holes punched into the paper tape to come out roughly in the female hour glass shape.
Hot damn!
The later high-tech flashy world of BBS with unbearably slow and incredibly low-res image files totally ruined the glory days of paper-tape porn.
Been there, done that. In high school I taught myself how to program in HP-2000F BASIC because the Star Trek game wouldn’t let me save my stats and inventory of photons and how many klingons I saved. This was all on a Teletype ASR-33 with paper-tape preservation of my program!
At home my older brother and I were building S100-bus systems running CP/M and programming 8080 assembler. Then Z80, MP/M.
Our cousin was elite with his Cromemco and 3MB 14” hard drive platters.
Also taught myself the Lear Seigler 3a and DEC VT-52/VT100 escape sequences.
Makes me chuckle how far things have come.