Before the Internet

LtBlarg

Shared on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 16:53
I am switching jobs at the end of the month so I cleaning out my office. I found (well I knew I had it) a copy of Wildcat! BBS 3.9.

Some of the younger members might not recognize it, but a wildcat BBS was the forerunner to the Internet. Oh yes. Memories of firing up the 2400 baud modem to connect to a BBS, login, play trade wars. Send a few messages and get off. I remember when I got my first US Robotics 28.8 K modem (Made in Canada). I think it was $400 and work paid for it.

I also have a copy of SuperCalc3 Release 2.0.
From Wikipedia. "An improvement over VisiCalc, SuperCalc was notable for being one of the first spreadsheet programs capable of iteratively solving circular references (cells that depend on each other's results). It would be over 10 years after the introduction of SuperCalc before this feature was implemented in Microsoft Excel, although in Lotus 123, manual programming of iterative logic could also be used to solve this issue."

I hate to throw these out.....

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Submitted by SixTGunR on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 17:39
Holy crap, Wildcat??? I remember using that a long, long, frickin long time ago. I used to store my class projects on there...they were written im C/PM... (Pronounced "seepem"... Anyway, you're showing your age. Anyway, my first 9600baud modem wasn't cheap, either. :-

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