Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:16:58 +0000 From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) Subject: Re: Dial-up modems (Re: FREE GAME: Spirit of the Mouse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action References: <8pmcnW4AO6Zye2D7nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <2d1d9c48fbbdc14ad1055a11b19e73d0b3557d19@i2pn2.org> User-Agent: tin/2.6.2-20221225 ("Pittyvaich") (Linux/6.10.7-100.fc39.x86_64 (x86_64)) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:16:58 +0000 Lines: 32 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.180.143.226 X-Trace: sv3-rEnhXEpMM6BA3gUdaY5FgE79SiI1ImrDAtui22J4eCwIoNSXSQUxzCWtFNdIcjThupvykiAxSBnjMYX!WgS/vTyZrrZrZoJ6nnkgwoWpsfKvpZ3qkC8+qsxG8ubF0Y5PcCVG70Cu+gKO+81odPddgQvLRwRv!9kUyO08apD2jXnkasnCdjAsHaShLBVvs X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2897 Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 02:07:34 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote: > >Justisaur wrote: > >> We had an acoustic coupler for awhile. I think I could type faster than > >> it sent letters. > >That's like 300 speed. ;) > Depends on how fast you can type :-) > 300 baud is probably amazingly fast to hunt-n-peck typists. I hunt and peck on smartphones since I have to have one hand hold it and while other hand type! > And in the 80s, before GUIs were common and everything -even a lot of > games - were character-based, 300 baud was probably usable, if a bit > slow. Although I can't imagine using anything that pokey for > downloading stuff; even 28,8kbps was tedious at those speeds (the > original Doom Shareware took me over an hour to get, back in the day). > Even looking at images was a chore; you'd queue up two or three and > that would be it for the night ;-) Yeah, but you had those evil line noises!!!!!!!!!!!! -- "The wise in heart accept commands, but a chattering fool comes to ruin." --Proverbs 10:8. Ant is a fool. Please go away Hurricane Milton! :( Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org. / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( )