At 19 my parent's house didn't even have a full line. I don't know the correct technical term in english but it was quartered. Four neighbours shared the same line.
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When Your Kids Make You Feel Old
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A party line. Those were still around when I was 19, but mostly for people who couldn't afford their own line.
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Good, good... My plan worked! I now feel young! :p
 (March 13, 2015 at 2:35 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: A party line. Those were still around when I was 19, but mostly for people who couldn't afford their own line. Yeah sure. There's even a song with that title which I tried to remember. No, it wasn't about affording. It was about the phone company not providing anything else in our area.
All phone systems started out as party lines and single lines came to some places earlier than others. I was just stating that by the time I was 19, single lines were available and becoming affordable.
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 RE: When Your Kids Make You Feel Old
March 13, 2015 at 3:03 pm
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I learned to program in Basic on our whole school district's one main frame computer which I communicated with via one of the three dial-up modems at the high school. I reserved my time a week in advance because there were 2000 students plus staff to those three modems. Fortunately most of those 2000 weren't remotely interested. To operate the modem you put the phone receiver in a slot and dialed. The interface was not a computer screen. It was a printer a noisy dot matrix printer. The printer printed out what I typed and what the computer responded.
Explaining a mainframe computer to the kids took a while at dinner last night.
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(March 13, 2015 at 3:03 pm)Jenny A Wrote: To operate the modem you put the phone receiver in a slot and dialed. The interface was not a computer screen. I remember being envious when I saw Matthew Broderick operate such an advanced tool in Wargames. I was envious of his whole equipment by the way.
My family's first computer was a Commodore Amiga 500. It was the shit! So many fun games to be played, and it made such good graphics. Well... for 1987.
 
I grew up on a C64. I missed it. All I did was program in BASIC, though. Still, it was fascinating.
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