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

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.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!!!!!!!!!!!!

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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?
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I never heard it.
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I loved that noise. Especially the *ping* *ping* of 52K.

My crappy phone lines couldn't go that fast due to distance, ages, etc.
At best, I could download at 3 kB/s with compressed datas. :( IIRC, FCC
limited to 53K too.

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