On 3/21/2016 1:45 PM, Harvey Altstadter
hrconsult@... [Homebrew_PCBs] wrote:
>
> Aargh! You reminded me of my first encounter with the time sharing
> service that our company contracted with in the 70's. Dial up, 300
> baud, acoustic coupler. I/O was a KRS 33 Teletype. No operating
> system, just a Monitor. I am convinced that that situation caused
> many of our employees to be wary of the PCs when we finally got them.
> That time sharing system was so gruesome that it scared people away
> from wanting to use computers.
>
Hello--
Gruesome, indeed. One advisory message on our primitive 1970s-era
time-sharing system read, "Changes not saved. OK?"
73--
Brad AA1IP