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So where are y'all from? | 102 comments (102 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: So where are y'all from? (none / 1)

Hey, don't knock 56 kb/s modems. That's better connection than I had for most of the week before last...

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 03:01:26 PM EST
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Re: So where are y'all from? (4.00 / 2)

It's probably better than I get now when I'm competing for bandwidth with two computers and a Wii...

by Sassafras on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 03:26:10 PM EST
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Re: So where are y'all from? (4.00 / 2)

56K?

I remember the leap from 300bit to 1200bit per second acoustic couplers, that just seemed so fast!

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 03:43:18 PM EST
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Yeah, I remember that. (none / 1)

Then the bastards came up with 2400, and then the built in serial port on the Commodore 64 started falling behind, despite have 64 kilobits of RAM and a blazing 1Mhz 6502 processor. And when someone came out with the 192Kbps serial cartridge, I couldn't afford that damn thing. Bastards.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 04:26:49 PM EST
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64 kilobytes ... (none / 1)

... 64 kilobits would be 8K, 4 times the Timex Sinclair 1000 (rebadged ZX-81) in my closet.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 04:28:50 PM EST
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Re: 64 kilobytes ... (4.00 / 4)

300 baud. On tape cassette.

And we were grateful.

Well - almost.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 06:28:19 PM EST
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Re: 64 kilobytes ... (none / 1)

Yeah, I had the 16KB RAM expansion. It would make the computer crash at random intervals. The BASIC interpreter ran in the cycles that were not used to generate the display.

As I said, the most closet compatible computer I have ever had.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 06:54:09 PM EST
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