Remote work in the early 80s.

Posted by LisiasT@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 2 comments

How it would be sending/receiving email in the early 80s, while traveling?

This BBC news story talks about. Very nice!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqJ159pngY8

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quentinnuk@reddit

I remember Telecom Gold. The networks shown in the video are X25 based packet switch services via a X3/X28/X29 PAD, known as PSS in the UK.

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You'd have to lug around a terminal of some sort, and an acoustic coupling modem. We had a bunch of guys in the field with TI Silent 700 terminals that had a built-in modem. I think they only supported 300 baud, which was barely tolerable.