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From: Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Dial-up modems (Re: FREE GAME: Spirit of the Mouse)
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 07:59:44 -0500
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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 <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 02:07:34 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>>> >Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> 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.

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Zag

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