| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 14 Jun 2001 at 09:32:01 |
| Subject: | Re: CDRW Burner |
Alan Buxey said,
> pah! this 'text messaging' is hardly a new phenomenon, it only exists
> because of 2 issues 1) phones without keyboards are a pain to type
> messages with and 2) the limit on SMS message size. even back in 1980's
> with Prestel and BBS's everyone wrote in such fashion ...as 1,200 baud
> modem was a pain to download bulletin messages with :-)
Prestel had a 75 baud upload speed, making it even more important to
save a few characters. BBSs generally ran at 300 baud both ways.
It's hard to believe we actually managed to do anything at those speeds,
I used to find ISDN too slow at times.
Cheers
Neil
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