Geek Fact for February 16th

By Judy Novotny / 02/16/2012 / Geek Facts

In 1978, the first Computer Bulletin Board System (BBS) went online.

The first BBS went online in the suburban Chicago home of Walt Christensen. It operated on a North Star Horizon 4 Mhz CP/M computer with a 5 MB hard drive and a 110 Bps modem. Christensen had to physically answer the phone and put the receiver into the modem’s acoustic cups.

Learn more at http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/carlson/history/bbs.htm

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Judy Novotny

Judy is a computer veteran with 30 years of experience. She has owned everything from a TRS-80, Apple IIe and various Windows-based PCs. She is currently living in her Apple ecosystem at home consisting of an iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBook, Apple TV, iPod nano and two Time Capsules. She is a fan of all things mobile since she got her first Palm Pilot in 1999. Check out her iPad app, Number Wizard, in the App Store. Follow her on Twitter @junovotech or at Junovo.com.