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echo: memories
to: Joe Mackey
from: Kurt Weiske
date: 2014-03-24 09:26:00
subject: Re: The early days (was: Re: genie packets)

-=> Joe Mackey wrote to BOB BREED <=-

 JM>   Cost was prohibitive at the time, it was up to $5 an hour to connect
 JM> and would take two hours to download an entire edition.

I remember the argument that 300 baud was about the speed people could
read, so why would you need anything faster?




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