>"Shall we play a game?"

I've always felt that the people of the WarGames world should've been grateful that David didn't opt for Theaterwide Chemical and Biological Warfare instead.

>>At 1200 baud.
>
>Yeesh, my first dial-up was 14.4K, and that was considered a
>rocketship at the time. I can't imagine doing anything at 1200. Must
>have taken *hours*... (BBS at 14.4 seemingly took hours back then)

Well, keep in mind that what I was interfacing with was pretty bare-bones. CP/CMS was a text-only operating system from the 1960s, so it could only display a screenful of monochrome ASCII (well, technically EBCDIC, but the same limitations as to available character set) text at a time anyway. There was no file transfer or graphical widgetry, not even any color or non-ASCII-codepage-text graphics like you would get on BBSes and the like. It was slow - interfaces like that were best at 2400 baud - but not intolerable. It just meant a screen refresh took five seconds instead of two. The PC7300 was a slow beast anyway - I think the hard drive actually had a severed human hand holding a magnetic stylus for a write head* - so it wouldn't have made a ton of difference if the feed was faster.

--G.
* not really
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