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[will at theprescotts.com]

When I started programming, we would mail (US Postal Service) decks of punched cards to MIT to be run on their machine. Then they would mail the printed output back to us. This was in 1963.

Will 


On 2020 Jul 7, at 07-07 12:31:38, david whiting <dw at davidwhiting.me.uk> wrote:

You beat me to it! I was going to make the same reference. So here's
my contribution: In 1994 I was in Tanzania working at the main
hospital in the country. To send email I think I used a simple text
client and saved emails to a floppy disk. I would then take them over
to the library where the guy who ran the mailserver would copy them to
the server (a 386 running redhat). We would then wait for the Satelife
satellite to pass overhead. We normally had a 10 minute connection
window and he would have to adjust the dish to get the signal right.
Then there would be an agonising wait as we slowly watched each email
transfer. Then to get a reply I would come back the next day.

David

On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 18:26, Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> 
> On 07 July 2020 at 12:09, David Carlson said:
> 
>> Using a 300 baud modem, perhaps?  I had a Radio Shack model 100
> 
> <yorkshiremen count=4>
> Oooh, we used to *dream* of having 300 baud. We had to send our data one
> bit at a time using Morse code tapped out on an old drainpipe.
> </yorkshiremen>
> 
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