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

On 10/13/2024 5:00 PM, Ant wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 10/13/2024 5:58 AM, Zaghadka wrote:

On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:02:09 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
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Still, I stayed on dial-up for a long time (albeit with a faster 56K
modem)... well into the 2000s. The Internet was still _usable_ at
those speeds, and as for downloads? I'd just queue everything up and
let it run overnight.

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The year 2000 (or was it 1999?) is when I got SDSL 768Kbps installed.
Upgraded from USR 56k.
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I was ecstatic with (a little) less than T1 speeds. After that, I only
used my USR for fax. Can you believe we *still* fax?
>

I work with lawyers (clerical in a DA's office).  We still mail physical
paper documents.

 And faxes?

Sent and received via our printers which are also scanners, coming in as PDFs so they can be directly uploaded to the case tracking system.
The actual hard copy stuff is basically just certified documents which legally cannot be copied.
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