'80s computer relic still connecting users

'80s computer relic still connecting users



Though remembered by only a few isolated computer junkies, the Iowa Student Computer Association is still connecting more than 3,000 people worldwide in a network that was once a forerunner in mass international communication...



Ah, yes, the glory days of ISCABBS, my first connection to the Internet, way back in the fall of 1990. On my first computer (I'm now on my fifth), with a rockin' 14.4 modem, watching the text scroll by line by green text line. War-dialing to get the connection, waiting in the queue to be one of the 200 people allowed on at once...