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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> 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.
> > 
> Then you were never properly IN the dial-up era of the Internet!!

Let's fix that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k :)
It's funny to read the auto text (subtitle/closed captioning)s. :D

Speaking of action games, what games did you play over dial-up? For me, 
Duke3D, DOOM, Heretic, BattleZone, MotoRacer, Diablo, Warcraft, Quake, etc.

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