On 01/05/2020 11:51, Adam Funk wrote:
On 2020-04-10, John Rumm wrote:

CASHTel (Computer Aided Shopping by Telephone) was an early Maplin BBS
style service, that you could use to do mail order and other stuff. You
used ASCII terminal software and a 2400bps modem or similar. It let you
enter order codes and quantities.

I quite liked using it at times (even though I only lived a 10 min walk
from the shop) since it let you assemble a long order while sat in front
of all your notes and documentation etc.

And all that without running 1 MB of javascript...

Just as well, that was probably about the total RAM in the machine[1] at
the time, and a few years before the invention of the WWW, HTML etc!

[1] Amiga B2000, External Personics V22bis modem.


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Cheers,

John.

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