On January 26, 2020 at 15:59 kauer@biplane.com.au (Karl Auer) wrote:
On Sat, 2020-01-25 at 22:29 -0600, Aaron Gould wrote:
From: Ben Cannon [mailto:ben@6by7.net] I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line. And 9600 baud modems…
Pah! Luxury!
When *I* were a lad we had to touch the wires with our tongues to tell one from zero, no job for a sissy lemme tell you. And don't talk to me about bandwidth. You could increase it easily enough by wiring up other body parts, but it was hard to keep the staff.
You had ones?! We couldn't afford them, we had to guess from the time delays between zeros. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*