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[ih] AT&T, carterfone, the 103, and why didnt BBSs start earlier?

On 13 Aug 2009 at 18:43, Dave CROCKER wrote:

> Randy Bush wrote:
> > ... an ibm lameframe, and there were only lameframes in '62,
> 
> Just within the IBM stable, in the early 60s, 7090s [1] were mainframes, but the 
> 1401 [2] and 1620 [3] definitely were not.
> 
> The 1620 introduced a lot of folk to computing.

That would include me -- hacking the 1620 [with a 407 and a Friden 
"square root" calculator thrown in for variety] started me down my path 
to ruin.  

And before the 1620 there was the 650.   It was a relatively small 
computer, too, no? [they retired it the year before I arrived].

  /Bernie\

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