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From:Alan Buxey
Date:14 Jun 2001 at 15:00:11
Subject:Re: CDRW Burner

hi,

> 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.

my BBS started off at 4,800, with a swift upgrade to 9,600. Two years
later I was running at the astonishing speed of 19,200. when i stopped
running my BBS it was 33.6kbaud.

> It's hard to believe we actually managed to do anything at those speeds,
> I used to find ISDN too slow at times.

in 'those days' programs were a few K in size, nobody transferred
movies/MP3 audio/JPEGs/whatever-0the-next-format is etc :-)

and text that was written was WORTH reading :-)

also, people didnt have wasteful .sigs and there was practically ZERO spam
(as it costa LOT for someone to actually send spam)

alan

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