@filid nice. Was that because it didn’t have a general license to be operated, like an FTZ number? Or was that the norm in the very early days of home computing? I doubt every C64 owner had this…
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My high school gym was used as a venue to exhibit very early microwave ovens in the 1950’s. Watching them demo baking a potato in less than 10 minutes made the future very tangible.
@root42 Also, modems and acoustic couplers (or anything you attached to your telephone in some way really) had to be certified by the Deutsche Post in the 80s, leading to the CCC releasing the schematics of the "Datenklo" ("Data Toilet"), a guerilla acoustic coupler for everyone (including me) to build and operate illegally. It did a whopping 300 bps. Good times.
@dascandy42 I see. Everything west is Bundes* (Bundes==Federal) as it was the Bundesrepublik (Federal Republic) and the east was the German Democratic Republic ("Democratic"). The GDR Post was called Deutsche Post whereas the FRG Post was called Deutsche Bundespost, or Bundespost for short.
@root42 OK, I have to ask my parents. I'm positive, we had a microwave oven since the beginning of the 1980ies. I don't know of any license, but back then I was in primary school.
@drazraeltod our phone didn't have a jack. The phone line went straight into a box in the wall. You weren't even allowed to install the phone yourself...
I guess with microwave ovens it was also a legacy issue. Back in 1949 no one thought of those...
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