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.