Comments on: Digital Revolution Began in the ’80s http://www.davidhenderson.com/2007/11/07/digital-revolution-began-in-the-80s/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=digital-revolution-began-in-the-80s Writer, communications strategist, Emmy Award winning former CBS News correspondent Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:24:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Barney http://www.davidhenderson.com/2007/11/07/digital-revolution-began-in-the-80s/#comment-297 Barney Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:08:24 +0000 http://www.davidhenderson.com/blog/2007/11/07/digital-revolution-began-in-the-80s/#comment-297 We got our Apple IIe Europlus in around 1981 or 1982. We used it for very primitive word processing - the 40 column green screen did not support upper and lower case, so capital letters were displayed in reverse video. What excitement when we got an 80-column card and we could actually see upper and lower case. I had a 300-baud modem in 1986 and used to go onto various bulletin boards. I really thought that this the future for computers... We got our Apple IIe Europlus in around 1981 or 1982. We used it for very primitive word processing – the 40 column green screen did not support upper and lower case, so capital letters were displayed in reverse video. What excitement when we got an 80-column card and we could actually see upper and lower case.

I had a 300-baud modem in 1986 and used to go onto various bulletin boards. I really thought that this the future for computers…

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