Daniel Whiteson
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What's your lowest baud rate?
Let me see.
I ran a BBS, actually.
You did?
At my home, yes.
I had one on my computer.
on mom's phone line on mom's phone line we racked up a bill yeah we had a second phone line actually um you know and we had people all over the country um all over the world contributing it was a lot of fun i was so enamored that was you know this is well before internet oh yeah in your house right this is everything is dial up and so i think it was 14-4 uh kilobaud was my or my slowest
That was your slowest?
Oh boy, I go back to 150 bot.
Wow.
But I'm a lot older than you.
I'm in the presence of a sysop.
That's amazing.
What got you started in that?
Because I mean, VIC-20 is, I think that came out in 81 or close to it.
What got you started in computers that early?
Yeah, well, my dad was working at the lab in Los Alamos.
So I grew up in northern New Mexico.
He was working at Los Alamos.
Yeah, absolutely.