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Re:Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing by bdcravens on Monday September 25, 2017 @01:30PM (#15332297)
In the mid-eighties to mid-nineties home computers still cost several thousands of dollars. Installing a modem was no small feat either in computers from that time.
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Re:Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing by ams6110 on Monday September 25, 2017 @04:16PM (#15333730)
Some were cheap. The TI 99/4a was almost being given away in the mid-80s. But I don't ever remember it being popular for accessing dial-up. Its Terminal Emulator implemented a proprietary protocol and was actually more popular for its text-to-speech capability.
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Re:Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing by patrickg_zill on Monday September 25, 2017 @05:22PM (#15334289)
My high end 486 dx2/66 was 2000 usd, in 1993, plus monitor.
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