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Ooohh, neato. CompuServe was the way we first got online at my house, in 1992. I still have a copy of CompuServe Magazine from July 1992 [0], which describes their online shopping portal - quite impressive for the time! Funny bit on page 8: "My best advice for people thinking of entering game programming is --don't! If you're a good programmer, you'll take a pay cut of at least 25% to work in the games field".

[0] http://www.vtda.org/pubs/CompuServe_Magazine/CompuServe_Maga...



I like how one of the reader letters is about "Classic Computing", already a thing in '92:

>I enjoyed reminiscing with your article "Gone But Not Forgotten" in the May issue (p.18). I don't use my old machines regularly, but I periodically pull out my Franklin Ace 100 (Apple II compatible) that sits in my basement. It was a powerful machine at the time with a huge 64K. At one time, I hooked up six 5 1/4" floppy drives to run a computer bulletin board from my home. Today I can fit all of that on a single 3 1/2" disk and still have room for my System 7 software. Thanks for the memories.

>Jeffrey I. Algazy >New Haven, Conn.


I wonder how Jeffrey I. Algazy feels about his 128G micro SD card.


Well, it can hold more than 88 888 floppies' worth of data!


These days lots of people would love to work on games for a 25% pay cut, or even a much larger one. Surely this was the case back then too :)




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