[Sderby] Re: Modems

[Paul Grosse]

On Thursday 07 October 2004 17:10, James Gibbon wrote:
> So that £20 is cheap indeed when you consider what a 9kbps modem would have
> cost you back in the '80s!

When I first went on the Internet, I used a 1200 baud modem. Once, I was 
showing off to the wife, just how good this WWW thing was by clicking on a 
link to download a 1MB sattelite image from a weather site. It took ages and 
then it stopped part way through and we never saw any of it.

When I first started in computers, we had a terminal that went to the borough 
computer via a 75 baud (that'sa almost 10 characters per second which is 
almost as fast as the terminal) accoustic coupler (two rubber cups that you 
push the telephone handset into). I remember playing hangman on it.

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
-- 
Regards,


Paul Grosse

http://www.grosse.is-a-geek.com/
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pagrosse/

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