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Old Jul 20, 2020, 3:51 pm
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Originally Posted by LAX_AUS_DL_FLYER
I'm 33 so I was born a year after this article was written. They said at some TWA Clubs you could "dial into" an work office directory of sorts on an IBM-PC and do work. No idea what that exactly means.
It was a modem to modem connection -- got one computer access to another computer -- terminal window access. Think of it as a telephone connection your remote computer/terminal had with another specific computer-- but with very low rate data. Guess you had to have been there. These terms / concepts are long obsolete. Pre-internet.
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