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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Zaghadka Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Dial-up modems (Re: FREE GAME: Spirit of the Mouse) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 07:59:44 -0500 Organization: E. Nygma & Sons, LLC Lines: 44 Message-ID: <71hngjhhg8k0m0iveev7h5n2kn4589v538@4ax.com> References: <2d1d9c48fbbdc14ad1055a11b19e73d0b3557d19@i2pn2.org> Reply-To: zaghadka@hotmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:59:44 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4636e71a56d003636e1395ac6674f941"; logging-data="734001"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19iJT85qIanc8eZOw9rhYeB2n+Kke+fJes=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:hrfzzsLk27x8z1gUat8i49cZY6U= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 Bytes: 3127 On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:45:02 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:16:58 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote: > >>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!!!!!!!!!!!! > >No, you didn't. Most modems supported the AT M0 command, which turned >off the speaker from the start. It was one of the first AT commands I >learned, and boy howdy did I make sure every AT string I used included >it! That squeal people associate with the dial-up era of the Internet? > >I never heard it. > I loved that noise. Especially the *ping* *ping* of 52K. -- Zag No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten