How to check your email in 1984

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I had a system almost exactly like that in my briefcase, and when you called Home for messages they would come in at 300 baud rate, and it was so slow that you could read it in real time as the letters came in. That particular computer you could buy at RadioShack for about $300.

Before that I had a computer with a 50 baud rate modem, and it was sort of like playing scrabble. I used it to turn giant water pumps on or off, over the phone.