[GreenKeys] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Model 15 + C-64 Baud rate question

[drlegendre .]

Drew _Alan_ Kaplan.. ;-)

The catalog was famous for its rambling page-long anecdotes / screeds
intended to pitch the product du jour. As a kid, I always found it a
fascinating read - so much unlike any other sales catalog. Up there with
Spencer Goods or Johnson Smith in terms of entertainment value. Turns out
that Kaplan was a UCLA Psychology major, but never earned a degree. Too
bad, as the dang catalog marketing scheme could well have made for a very
valid master's thesis study.

IIRC, if you bought a Commodore 1600 VICMODEM, it came with a one-hour
trial with The Source and/or Compuserve. Their rates were truly exorbitant,
charging by the +minute+, and that was on top of the long-distance
telephone rates of the early 1980s when the private LD carriers were just
starting to appear. Ultimately, the service wasn't even remotely affordable
for the vast majority of Commodore owners.

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Jeffrey D Angus <jdangus at att.net> wrote:

> On 7/5/2015 4:41 PM, Lee Mushel wrote:
>
>> But the final straw was the DAK telephone (and numerous other
>> things) and I just saw that the other day but I don't remember where
>> but I won't be satisfied until I find it again.
>>
> Bwahahaha, "Made ya look..."
>
>> I will say that the phone finally did bite the dust but I simply cannot
>> bring myself to throw it out.....
>>
> You're just as bad as I am.
>
> PS, I just looked over in one corner of the shop, and yuppers, there  it
> sits. My Commodore C64 with the AV cable and power supply brick.
>
> PPS, Drew Andrew Kaplin, The J.C. Whitney of consumer electronics.
> At one time, there was even a DAK store near Hawthorne and
> Sepulveda in South Torrance near where I lived at the time.
>
>
>
> --
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