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Yea, the display was black with green text. I had 4 levels of brightness for the green I think, so no photos or graphics at all. I logged into Compuserve and I could read the text faster than it came down. And they charged several bucks per hour so on-line was EXPENSIVE. I ordered a pair of Levis back in the 1980s and it cost me several bucks of Compuserve time to place the order. I got my first Compuserve bill and then fainted. When I woke up, I canceled it.
And the modem was several hundred bucks.
I found the BBS world and got into Fido-net which was an early type of email. I remember asking about which CD ROM to buy. It was over $400 and it could only read a CD, the burner was later. The burners were just coming out and I waited until I could get the 2X burner and it was close to $600. We bought one for the office.
I still have my first mouse. It was a Microsoft mouse with two large green buttons and the wide serial port. The ball is steel.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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