[Gllug] Workshop at the next GLLUG meeting.

[Dave Cridland]

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 14:17, Richard Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Colin Murphy wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 18 March 2002 1:13 pm, Vincent AE Scott wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > long gone are the days of trying to omptimize your HST's setting for max
> > > CPS on Zmodem.
> > >
> > Ah, halcyon days.
> 
> I still remember fondly my V23 modem.  I was using it with an ST, which
> couldn't handle different incoming and outgoing data rates, so I had a
> little OS 'hack' which slowed down outgoing data to 75 baud :-)
> 
> I also remember the first time I used a 2400 baud modem.  It was *so* fast,
> it was amazingly cool :-)

I'm apparently a little younger than you, and had the same adrenalin
rush when I saw how fast a 9600 baud modem was.

Not long afterwards, I went to university, and could pull data halfway
across the country faster than I could from my CDROM, and commenced my
life-long hatred of modem speed. :-)

Dave.


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