• Trollivier
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    7 months ago

    We had a Vic 20 as well! In 1984. I was 4 years old.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Wow. In 84 it cost about a dollar per minute to talk on a cell phone. That’s when minimum wage was $3.35 an hour. So you’d have to work for 20 minutes to afford one minute of talk time if you were a minimum wage worker.