Subj : Re: Good to be back
To   : hollowone
From : Ed Vance
Date : Mon Apr 07 2025 15:14:32

> You guys are talking about history far beyond my generation ;)
> I started shortly with modem to have dialup for the internet in the mid 90s.

> I though 14400 was slow then... but you beat my patience by far if you stood
> up to 1200. I presume delay on just simple ASCII typing and text receiving
> was a norm then.. can't even imagine how could you share something more than
> simple messages at that speed. 

> I presume all that was before people invented files could be shared?

> -h1

> ... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.


I got a RS-232 Adapter for my C=64 so I could get a 2400 modum.
That only raised my speed to 1200, never could get a2400 connection even after
I got a 28.8k external modum.

But HEY! 1200 is four times the speed of 300.
It wasn't until I had a 486 system that I saw that modum get to its top speed.

As much as I tried to see if the C64 would do 2400 nothing I tried allowed the
Commodore System to connect at 2400.
But I lived with it.
Ed
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