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I used to play poker on a local BBS with my Atari and a 300 baud modem -
still have it. But unfortunately, I dont think their are any BBS's to
connect to anymore. Last one I used was back in 97.
-john
On Mon, 1 May 2006, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 schwepes@netaxs.com wrote:
>
> > Ah, the old man remembers the good old days. There was that ten meg
> > hardrive that took up the space of a file cabinet dedicated to CD's that
> > lived next to the 64K Ram 8088 computer that one wanted to expand to
> > 254K. This ten meg hard drive swallowed all of those programs easily
> > as they were all on single 360K 5 1/4" floppies. It had acres of room
> > that would never be filled. Actually, my drive was never filled. It
> > died first.
> > Of course, your work will expand to fill whatever you have for it. Jpg
> > files have steadily increased in grainularity since they were introduced
> > and have been followed by sound and video.
> > Just logging on to a website forces your computer to throughput pure
> > unadulterated junk that lives on your temp files until you clean them.
> > And the junk has increased in bits over time. If you could fore the
> > issue and only accept text, you can use a slower device and require less
> > memoroy.
> > Oh yes, who here is old enough to remember the great speed increase from
> > 300 Baud to 2400 at the modem?
>
> Yea, I remember thinking how great 1200 was and all of the hype that surrounded
> it. I just recently got rid of my 300 Baud modem. For that matter I do not think
> I have any of them except the my courier 56K and a couple of sportsters. All
> externals.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom Diehl tdiehl@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123@rogueind.com
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