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[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
> > Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > [pruned]
> >
> > > I do remember that when I first used dial-up on linux with MarmaDuke
> > > (??) 5.5 that I had no problems connecting, but I had an external
> > > serial port USRobotics.
> > >
> > > The above is slightly inaccurate.  I did connect with linux (Slackware)
> > > which had to have the kernel compiled to install.  I believe that it
> > > was prior to 1.0, something like 15 floppy disks downloaded over 1200
> > > baud dial-up (or was it 600).  Dos days before windoz.
> > >
> > > That 1200 baud modem was _fast_ compared to the accoustic connect 150
> > > baud first modem on a C-64 running cp/m.
> > I shall never forget the day I introduced the 1200 baud modem (~1968) on
> > the BBS I was running and one of the users complained BITTERLY that it
> > should be removed immediately because he could not keep up when reading
> > the text as it appeared on the screen! :-)
> >
> > The good ol' days....
>
> A BBS in 1968????  That was about 7 years before personal computers
> started to become popular and well before modems were readily available.

Yes, yes, yes :-) . Me culpa. Should have read ~1986. (I won't be able 
to sleep tonight because of this faux pas :-) .)

Cheers.

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