2 hours per edition seems a touch high!

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Just imagine, if you read something you like, you’ll be able to PRINT it and SAVE it!

2 hours sounds about right for an entire newspaper of text in 1981. When I was catapulted onto the Internets in the late 80s, I had a secondhand 600 baud modem. Extrapolate back…that’s one slow connection.

Dixie added these pithy words on Feb 23 09 at 22:26

This is amazing… computers being connected by phone lines?? madness.

ruth added these pithy words on Apr 24 09 at 15:15

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