Re: New WiFi adapter

On 07/06/2025 13:02, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-06-06 06:24, c186282 wrote:

On 6/5/25 7:08 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-06-05 01:06, c186282 wrote:

On 6/4/25 4:37 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-06-04 22:21, rbowman wrote:
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The 'write an editor' think could be traced to the programming books of
the day. They tended to use string handling in their examples and it
followed 'Oh, I can write an editor'.

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Borland Pascal (and Borland C I suppose) at some point came with a set of libraries that allowed to create menu based text applications, and one of the included objects was an editor, for at least 65K of text.
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I remember another set of libraries, that came with a thick book, that included the libraries to create an editor. I don't remember the name.

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   No Borland stuff yet when we got our PCs ... and
   we couldn't afford anything but the MS/IBM FORTRAN
   compiler for the stats people. So, I opened the
   Tek Ref manual and wrote my EdLin-killer in MASM.
   It was fun too :-)
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   No real internet back in '82 ... so you couldn't
   download other people's solutions. The few BBS
   systems were mostly Commodore/Atari stuff.

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I did not have a phone in the 80's, so neither a modem. But I lived at a student residence at Uni, so exchanging software via floppy was trivial ;-)

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   Awwww ... you missed 300-baud comms !
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   Think "slow enough to actually read as it comes in"  :-)

 I think that on one visit home, the bank manager, learning what I was studying, gifted us with a modem for accessing an information system being promoted by the authorities, and one of the services it had was accessing the bank. It was called "Infovía".
 It had a small speed uplink, and a faster speed downlink. I don't remember the figures, but could be 300/1200. Maybe less than 300?
 

75 up, 1200 down.
Minitel and Prestel I think used that.
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I remember typing ASM programs that came with perhaps PC-Magazine (ted.asm → ted.com). There were instructions for downloading it with a modem, but that would be an international phone call, even if I had a modem and a phone of my own.
 

I remember trying to download a MB of files over a modem to the USA, couldn't keep the connection alive that long. Eventually did it one file at time. Took pretty much an entire evening
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