[Coco] Ebay chuckle of the day

Theodore (Alex) Evans alxevans at concentric.net
Mon Oct 11 18:57:37 EDT 2010


On 10/11/2010 03:18 PM, Little John wrote:
> Actually, these very likely could have been used to access the 
> internet via services such as Delphi... It would have been painfully 
> slow, but still... I used a modem with a CoCo 3 to access the internet 
> via Delphi sometime in the 1990's (unless I am remembering wrong... 
> which I could be..)

You're probably right, but by the time online communities like Delphi 
started permitting subscribers to easily access even parts of the 
internet through them nearly everyone had already upgraded to smart 
modems that were faster (1200+ bps) to boot.




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