Tablet machines and W9X?
Lostgallifreyan wrote in
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"Bill in Co" wrote in
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One might say, in a sense, that BBS was a forerunner to Usenet.
You don't know what you were missing. :-) I guess it seems
primitive by today's standards.
I think I heard of a BBS from a guy who ran computer music gear. The
Atari ST had just got some program called Cubase, and I remember the
amazing whiteness and sharpness of the screen image, (no colours) and
the guy (Steve Risley I think his name was) mentioning a BBS in
conjunction with electronic music. I hadn't even got a phone at the
time. But I was programming sounds on FM synthesizers, and was trying
to figure out who if anyone might be interested in them, and what
other things people were getting up to. Everything techincal from that
time seems primitive now. But I don't knock it. A computer called DSKY
that wouldn't hold a candle to a pocket calculator not only got men to
the moon, it got the Apollo 17 crew back again.
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