Re: Dial-up modems (Re: FREE GAME: Spirit of the Mouse)

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:16:58 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
 

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 02:07:34 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:

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We had an acoustic coupler for awhile.  I think I could type faster than
it sent letters.

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That's like 300 speed. ;)

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Depends on how fast you can type :-)
300 baud is probably amazingly fast to hunt-n-peck typists.

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I hunt and peck on smartphones since I have to have one hand hold it and while other hand type!
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And in the 80s, before GUIs were common and everything -even a lot of
games - were character-based, 300 baud was probably usable, if a bit
slow. Although I can't imagine using anything that pokey for
downloading stuff; even 28,8kbps was tedious at those speeds (the
original Doom Shareware took me over an hour to get, back in the day).
Even looking at images was a chore; you'd queue up two or three and
that would be it for the night ;-)

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Yeah, but you had those evil line noises!!!!!!!!!!!!

 No, you didn't. Most modems supported the AT M0 command, which turned
off the speaker from the start. It was one of the first AT commands I
learned, and boy howdy did I make sure every AT string I used included
it! That squeal people associate with the dial-up era of the Internet?
 I never heard it.