Sujet : Re: Dial-up modems (Re: FREE GAME: Spirit of the Mouse)
De : ant (at) *nospam* zimage.comANT (Ant)
Groupes : comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.actionDate : 10. Oct 2024, 01:16:58
Autres entêtes
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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:
We had an acoustic coupler for awhile. I think I could type faster than
it sent letters.
That's like 300 speed. ;)
Depends on how fast you can type :-)
300 baud is probably amazingly fast to hunt-n-peck typists.
I hunt and peck on smartphones since I have to have one hand hold it and while other hand type!
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 ;-)
Yeah, but you had those evil line noises!!!!!!!!!!!!
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