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

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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