Re: OT Home Highway, is it worth it?

["tomdubourg" <thomas.dubourg@xxxxxxx>]

I have Home Highway and am very satisfied. Instant access, and the
web downloads are far superior to 56k analogue modem stuff.

Interesting to hear about Zetnet ISP offering 128k dual channels for
the surf time fee. I didn't think any one would offer that... BT
definitely won't like it using 2 exchange ports.

As for history I had a connection to Prestel and Micronet with a 1200
baud modem to by Spectrum 48k. (1985 I think). It was all in viewdata
format, and I do believe that this was one of the first main stream
email and information services in the UK.

Cheers

Tom




Anyone use Prestel and Micronet. I h

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@b...> wrote:
> Does a ZX81 count? That was the first oversized calculator I owned!
>
> Then a 16K Spectrum
> Then an Amiga
> Then onto PC's...in DOS, IIRC about 1986.
>
> The first PC I *actually* owned was a 486 Packard Bell thing that
was
> horrid and just took Win 95 when it arrived, but by that time I'd
moved
> on.
>
> Didn't bother about the web until the late eighties/early nineties
> though as there wasn't a lot use for it from my perspective.
>
> Now can we please all drop this as I'm starting to feel old ;-)
>
> K.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx...]
> > Sent: 24 January 2002 12:31
> > To: ukha_d@y...
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: OT Home Highway, is it worth it?
> >
> > John,
> >
> > I started on _computers_ a long while earlier. The 386sx was the
first
> > PC I used to access the Internet AT HOME!
> >
> > The first computer I used - a RM
> > The first networked computer - ran CP/M
> > The first computer I owned - a spectrum (in the origianl plastic
case)
> > The first hardware upgrade - the "bigger" case for the
Spectrum
> > The first Internet access - a Sun 3/50 running SunOS 4.0
> > The first Home Internet access - a 386/SX with a 2400baud modem
> >
> > Erm... Like you I have 20 years experience of owning a PC (and
about
> 25
> > of using one.) I also have 13 years of Internet experience...
> >
> > Now I feel old ;-(
> >
> > Mark Harrison
> > Head of Systems, eKingfisher


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