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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