From an ISP in Kenya ca. 2005
What are the cost implications? ===============================
They are so minimal, you won't believe it! For as little as US$ 200 per month you can get yourself a leased line of 64Kbps uplink and 256Kbps downlink.
Paul Newton
Who's ever going to need more than 256 Kbps?
Puts my .42bis modem all to shame.
And, at $22.95/hour for CompuServe, this will be a real time saver!
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 11:09 AM Paul Newton paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
From an ISP in Kenya ca. 2005
What are the cost implications?
They are so minimal, you won't believe it! For as little as US$ 200 per month you can get yourself a leased line of 64Kbps uplink and 256Kbps downlink.
Paul Newton
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Not sure if attachments work here. 02/02/98 28.8K Dial-In-Port $125 per month
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2022 4:03 PM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Those were the days ... ISP charges
Who's ever going to need more than 256 Kbps?
Puts my .42bis modem all to shame.
And, at $22.95/hour for CompuServe, this will be a real time saver!
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 11:09 AM Paul Newton paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
From an ISP in Kenya ca. 2005
What are the cost implications?
They are so minimal, you won't believe it! For as little as US$ 200 per month you can get yourself a leased line of 64Kbps uplink and 256Kbps downlink.
Paul Newton
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Was that REALLY the cost for CompuServe? Yikes!
I was there at the beginning - I did CompuServe & Prodigy and even dabbled in AOL Online briefly - which, years later - all non-computer literate people used AOL - and I knew to stay away. I did a little bit of the Early BBS systems. And, I was doing online banking with Chemical bank via modem & later as Chase Online via true internet (when they bought over Chemical & MannyHanny) - so, I was doing online banking before most common folks.
Yeah - the days of Modems - what FUN!!!
Funny side story. Its the reason when I was married - that my wife (now Ex) - INSISTED I get my own phone line - because I was doing the modem stuff - and people could not call in!
:-)
Fun times indeed...
-K
On 4/23/2022 1:03 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
Who's ever going to need more than 256 Kbps?
Puts my .42bis modem all to shame.
And, at $22.95/hour for CompuServe, this will be a real time saver!
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 11:09 AM Paul Newton paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
From an ISP in Kenya ca. 2005
What are the cost implications?
They are so minimal, you won't believe it! For as little as US$ 200 per month you can get yourself a leased line of 64Kbps uplink and 256Kbps downlink.
Paul Newton
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2022, at 3:55 AM, Kurt @ Gmail wrote:
Was that REALLY the cost for CompuServe? Yikes!
In theearly 1980s, in the US, yep. You could download a copy of the 20c print edition of the NYT which would take maybe 5 hours at $5 an hour.
By the time I was using it in the UK in the mid 1990s it was about £10 a month with phone call charges on top.
In Kenya at the time we couldn't reliably get software updates and the like without the use of something like GetRight (sometimes we had to resume downloads several times before they completed)
On 25/04/2022 09:07, Alan Bourke wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2022, at 3:55 AM, Kurt @ Gmail wrote:
Was that REALLY the cost for CompuServe? Yikes!
In theearly 1980s, in the US, yep. You could download a copy of the 20c print edition of the NYT which would take maybe 5 hours at $5 an hour.
By the time I was using it in the UK in the mid 1990s it was about £10 a month with phone call charges on top.
Was that REALLY the cost for CompuServe? Yikes!
This is from my bank account statement February 1997. That's the fee for January 1997 just for CompuServe. I also paid Deutsche Telekom by the minute in phone charges on top of that.
Was that REALLY the cost for CompuServe? Yikes!
This is from my bank account statement February 1997. That's the fee for January 1997 just for CompuServe. I also paid Deutsche Telekom by the minute in phone charges on top of that.
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Yes, that really was the cost but it wasn't for Compuserve, it was for a local (Kenyan) ISP
On 25/04/2022 03:55, Kurt @ Gmail wrote:
Was that REALLY the cost for CompuServe? Yikes!
I was there at the beginning - I did CompuServe & Prodigy and even dabbled in AOL Online briefly - which, years later - all non-computer literate people used AOL - and I knew to stay away. I did a little bit of the Early BBS systems. And, I was doing online banking with Chemical bank via modem & later as Chase Online via true internet (when they bought over Chemical & MannyHanny) - so, I was doing online banking before most common folks.
Yeah - the days of Modems - what FUN!!!
Funny side story. Its the reason when I was married - that my wife (now Ex) - INSISTED I get my own phone line - because I was doing the modem stuff - and people could not call in!
:-)
Fun times indeed...
-K
On 4/23/2022 1:03 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
Who's ever going to need more than 256 Kbps?
Puts my .42bis modem all to shame.
And, at $22.95/hour for CompuServe, this will be a real time saver!
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 11:09 AM Paul Newton paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
From an ISP in Kenya ca. 2005
What are the cost implications?
They are so minimal, you won't believe it! For as little as US$ 200 per month you can get yourself a leased line of 64Kbps uplink and 256Kbps downlink.
Paul Newton
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Formed in 1969, CompuServe went through many corporation transitions, involving companies and people as diverse as H&R Block, Radio Shack, the Associated Press and Mark Cuban.
Created originally with PDP-8s and PDP-15s as front-end routers as a means of dial-up interconnection for businesses, they started renting off-hours access to hobbyists and stuff sort of just grew from there.
Great write-up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe
I used TapCI$ to minimize dial-up time, reading and responding offline and connecting only long enough to send and receive. 76400,2503 was the number I used during the FoxForum heyday, but I had used, and lost, a three-digit number in the way-back-when.
I seem to remember that dial-up access was through one of several different networks. Some were modem banks in the back warehouse-storage areas in Sears Roebuck stores.
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 10:55 PM Kurt @ Gmail kurthwendt@gmail.com wrote:
Was that REALLY the cost for CompuServe? Yikes!
I was there at the beginning - I did CompuServe & Prodigy and even dabbled in AOL Online briefly - which, years later - all non-computer literate people used AOL - and I knew to stay away. I did a little bit of the Early BBS systems. And, I was doing online banking with Chemical bank via modem & later as Chase Online via true internet (when they bought over Chemical & MannyHanny) - so, I was doing online banking before most common folks.
Yeah - the days of Modems - what FUN!!!
Funny side story. Its the reason when I was married - that my wife (now Ex) - INSISTED I get my own phone line - because I was doing the modem stuff - and people could not call in!
:-)
Fun times indeed...
-K
On 4/23/2022 1:03 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
Who's ever going to need more than 256 Kbps?
Puts my .42bis modem all to shame.
And, at $22.95/hour for CompuServe, this will be a real time saver!
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 11:09 AM Paul Newton paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
From an ISP in Kenya ca. 2005
What are the cost implications?
They are so minimal, you won't believe it! For as little as US$ 200 per month you can get yourself a leased line of 64Kbps uplink and 256Kbps downlink.
Paul Newton
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