@TheLancashireman@hostux.social
Post #3118921
2025-03-27 16:37 UTC
Replies (7)
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@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk 2025-03-27 16:47
@TheLancashireman@hostux.social Yeah, I've already had a mate saying "Pah! 2800 baud rate was all we had". I'm not actually sure how fast(slow) my first connection was, because after I finished my MA in 1991 I was offline for about 8 years and missed all the very slow bits!
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@scottcain@genomic.social 2025-03-27 20:36
@TheLancashireman@hostux.social @Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk I came here to say exactly that: "56k, you should have seen 14.4k, and before that I used my dad's 300 baud modem with dumb vt100 terminal dialing into a VAX"
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@ezaquarii@social.etacassiopeiae.net 2025-03-28 11:20
@TheLancashireman@hostux.social @Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk Minitel user peek his head out from behind curtain...
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@keithpjolley@discuss.systems 2025-03-28 19:43
@TheLancashireman@hostux.social @Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk my second modem plugged into the adb bus (i know, like atm machine) and i don't think adb could have handled 56k. but at the time it was cool because not only could i dial into school, you could program the modem to play through the computer's speaker so i created a hypercard stack that dialed my bank's automated number and it would go through the different menus letting me know i had spent all my money on dumb things like adb modems and computers (actually not dumb - led to a great career).
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@reflex@retrogaming.social 2025-03-28 21:00
@TheLancashireman@hostux.social @Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk Yeah, I started at 2400 baud...
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@hirunatan@xarxa.cloud 2025-03-29 20:14
@TheLancashireman@hostux.social @Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk 56k was high speed! With it you can even download a full photo in "high resolution" (with a little patience). At the early 300 bauds you could literally see the bytes one by one as they came in.
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@sbi@toot.berlin 2025-03-30 21:43
@TheLancashireman@hostux.social @Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk "IRC? I skipped that fad." 😁