Hey people my age, do you remember when your parents had phone bills that were extremely expensive?
I remember my dad being pissed once that we had an $800 phone bill which in today’s money would be around $2000.
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Offthetop · 51-55, M
Yes and waiting for off-peak hours for those calls.
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Confined · 56-60, M
Yup.
pdockal · 56-60, M
Nope not @ all
JamesBugman · 56-60, T
I remember my first computer cost $1600, which was a ton of money back then. Now computers still cost $1600.
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@Bluebirdsonmyshoulder what makes it bad?
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JamesBugman · 56-60, T
@Bluebirdsonmyshoulder It was one of the first available computers. Apple 2 Plus. It had 16mb ram, no hard drive, but you could add a tape recorder, and it would play on a TV using an analog VHF connector. It came with Basic as the language.
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exexec · 70-79, C
Our phone bills were never that large since we made very few long distance calls.
ViciDraco · 41-45, M
I think $400 was the highest we reached. My younger brother connected to a for pay dial in porn site or something like that. I don't remember all the details but my father was definitely pissed.
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