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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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
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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.
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Author: Christof Wollenhaupt
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> 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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>> 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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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 $5 an hour.
>
> By the time I was using it in the UK in the mid 1990s it was about £10 a month with phone call charges on top.
>
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Formed in 1969, CompuServe went through many corporation transitions,
involving companies and people as diverse as H&R Block, Radio Shack,
the Associated Press and Mark Cuban.
Created originally with PDP-8s and PDP-15s as front-end routers as a
means of dial-up interconnection for businesses, they started renting
off-hours access to hobbyists and stuff sort of just grew from there.
Great write-up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe
I used TapCI$ 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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