Sending an email back in 1984

[LibraryLady2]

https://youtu.be/szdbKz5CyhA

Remember the sound of that modem dialing up? or that printer?

[ralph]

i remember the dial up sound but i only recently started using - e mail- maybe a year ago so i don't recall what it was like in 84 .

[ann jusko]

I remember (but not the year) when Hubs set up a computer for the kids so they could e-mail their friends. We had iffy phone service and none of the kids friends had access to a computer, so that didn't work out. The kids were in 4H and I applied for a grant for the 4H kids. Texas A&M gave us a grant and Hubs taught the kids how to program. They did programs for dairymen and cattle raisers to keep track of production. Ha! The funny part was that I had no idea how to pack up the equipment and then set it up. Good thing the kids did. We had to go to Tyler because they had a farm/ranch show early in the morning. They did the demo programing for dairymen on live TV. I just remember what my Hubs called the computer..Trash 80! Off we went to A&M to demonstrate it. The kids wrote a program for them and demonstrated it. I was still not understanding any of it. All the kids were really good and us mothers just kind of looked at each other. "Do you understand this?" "No".

Years later when the kids were in high school, Rains ISD decided to have a computer lab. All the equipment arrived and was still in boxes. My son, daughter and another 4Her skipped lunch and went into the "lab" and set up the equipment. The principal nearly fainted and called the company. He called the provider and got the woman who was coming to install it. When he mentioned the kids (my son, daughter and the other 4h boy) she said "Oh I know their fathers. It'll be fine. She was an engineer that had worked for my husband. And it was done properly. But they locked the lab until she got there a week or two later. The principal just couldn't understand the kids knowing how to use the computers.

[truep]

Back in '77, one of my accounts was NASA Ames. I had a terminal and modem I used for work. The guys at NASA set me up with an account on ARPANE.
That was the forerunner of the internet. I used to play star trek on the computer at Stanford. As I recall there were four or five universities on the network as well as NASA.

[truep]

That should have read ARPANET!

[crocmommy]

That should have read ARPANET!

yeah...I wondered about that....