Sysop of The Lower Planes BBS Anthony Adverse answers a few of our questions about the Australian BBS Scene… Thanks for taking the time to chat with us! Firstly, we assume you were a BBS [more…]
While the Internet would eventually bring computer-based telecommunications to the masses, by the late 1980s more tech-savvy individuals were already meeting new people and having all sorts of discussions ‘on-line’ – and in some cases [more…]
Released in 1980, the VIC-20 was the world’s first low-cost computer, at a list price of under US$300. Compared to other computers of the time, the VIC-20 had a tiny memory (5 kilobytes) and an [more…]
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