S1500 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I'm curious about the CompuServe online service just for the TI. Did anyone use it? The charges per hour looked really cost prohibitive. IIRC there was a protocol for it that TE2 could use for sound & graphics, or speech. I dunno. I only found an article: http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n5/37_Texnet.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed in SoDak Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I went with Delphi. I did get socked with a huge bill one month by surprise on the by-the-minute plan. Shortly after they offered a $20 a month unlimited plan and I had that for several years. -Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Compuserve then Delphi, but was on a later Atari 8-bit. Never had the $1000+ bucks to plunk down for a PE box to get an RS232 connection when I had a TI-99. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 This thread brings back memories! I remember using Compu$erve, Dow Jones News Retrieval and MCI Mail. It was cool, you could write a letter on your TI, and it would be printed and sent the address of your choosing for only $1.00. Of course the BBS's were much cheaper than the $12.00 per hour that Compu$erve charged for speeds greater than 300 baud. A few years later when PC Pursuit came out, the isolated TI'er could hit the big cities TI boards at half the advertised speed (packet delays). Then there was Fido Net that connected TI'ers world-wide for the price of a free call to the local BBS. While those were fun times, I now look back... with the modern-day Internet I realize, the good old day's SUCKED! Now for $50.00 a month I can get EVERYTHING at speeds we once thought were science fiction. What would he have thought of Atari Age or WHTECH back then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted April 1, 2014 Author Share Posted April 1, 2014 I completely forgot about PC Pursuit. Never used it, but... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 I completely forgot about PC Pursuit. Never used it, but... It was be nerve wracking, you're better off not having dealt with those gawd awful packet delays. Another thing I partially remember from my FidoNet days... I think it was called 7Plus... anyway a person could send you an entire program in multiple segmented ASCII text messages. The program would re-combine all the segments once they arrived, then you could put them on your TI and run them. Man, things have sure gotten easy and quick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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