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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 04:14 PM
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6. Oh wow, that reminds me of the "portable" Kaypro II!


Had a journalism school prof who had one of these. He was the first person on the Internet who I ever personally met--he was a CompuServe subscriber way back in 1982. Taught me the first things I ever knew about it through a couple of special classes he taught because he was convinced that this stuff he called "videotext" was the wave of the future. Now THAT's a visionary.

I'll never forget the night he brought his Kaypro II to class and "talked" on it to a fellow subscriber in West Virginia using the "CB simulator" (the CompuServe equivalent of IM). We were all amazed.
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