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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Dial-up modems (Re: FREE GAME: Spirit of the Mouse)
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 18:36:27 -0700
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On 10/10/2024 8:45 AM, 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.
> 
Then you were never properly IN the dial-up era of the Internet!!

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