1985: And It's Only $3 A Month!

WTVJ Consumer affairs and technology reporter Alan Mendelson gets a look at banking-by-phone, a time-and-money-saving innovation of the gas-short 1970s coming back to phone lines near you in the tech-obsessed mid-1980s.

Southeast Bank, which no longer exists, offered banking by phone for just three dollars a month -- about the cost of fourteen postage stamps, Mendelson notes helpfully.

Not only does this story offer a glimpse of early in-home computing, but also copious footage of what Florida Power & Light bills looked like thirty years ago -- and we're sure you're just dying to see that!

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