Fred Wagner
The Bank of Canada did an article on me in the internal publication “staff bulletin / bulletin d’information” in October 1984.
How things have changed since 1984!
As you can read in the article, access to the “Internet” was via a dial-up acoustic coupler at the fantastic speed of 300 baud (about 30 characters per second). The computer had 64 K of memory and 4 external disk drives with 156,000 character capacity per each floppy disk. A colour TV was used as the monitor. Email was limited to “text” only – no capacity for photos – even on a disk! This was before the creation of the World Wide Web (www) and mainly accessible thru a CompuServe subscription.
Below is a “cut&paste” of that article. If difficulty reading, hold "Ctrl" and press "+" a few times (smaller "Ctrl" and "-").
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