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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 27 2017, @08:32PM (14 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 27 2017, @08:32PM (#532112) Journal

    Buffering while streaming... annoying?
    Ha, I still remember FTPmail "downloading" from ftp.funet.fi (the place from where Linux was released to the world) - in spite of the uuencoding overhead, the pop client was able to resume, the ftp client didn't - lost connection meant a lost download with ftp.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @10:15PM (13 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @10:15PM (#532667)

    My first modem was 28.8k on Win 3.1 and it took about 8 hours to download (I think) IE3.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday June 28 2017, @11:04PM (12 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 28 2017, @11:04PM (#532683) Journal

      Mine was a US Robotics, capable of 14.4k, never got to connect at over 9600bsp.

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      • (Score: 2) by Mykl on Thursday June 29 2017, @04:29AM (9 children)

        by Mykl (1112) on Thursday June 29 2017, @04:29AM (#532812)

        Bah. Netcomm 2400 baud modem to dial into my university's dialup bank of 8 modems (yes, 8 for the whole University). This was in 1990.

        It was hard to get on, and the system would boot you after 10 minutes of inactivity. So I set up a modem script to keep dialling until I got a connection, then to open a vi session and type a space every minute. Would fire it off and then wander off for an hour or two before coming back to check if I had managed to connect. Good times.

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday June 29 2017, @05:27AM (7 children)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 29 2017, @05:27AM (#532832) Journal

          1999 - "senior enough" to be allowed in research labs; one 286 with 4MB RAM to play with models and numerical algos was always there and mostly mine. Good God, what a pain in the ass the stiff ODEs have been.
          1998 - my Uni had no public modems. The VAX/VMS I could access have had some optocoupled terminals at 2400: VT100 clones - green phosphorus. Oh, wow! Graphic primitives and plots on screen! I could forget the traumatizing FORTRAN or the dumb Basic; if only I could wake up to stand in the queue at 6AM in the morning to get a spot (the lab opened access at 9).
          1987 - couldn't get access to anything better than ZX Spectrum clones or a single CP/M if you were in front of the queue. Personal 8" floppies were quite hard to get, smuggler stuff (communist regime at that time)
          1986 - the only way to have programs running - have your stack of punch cards collected for the sole weekly run allowed to students (IBM360) - after 3 attempts, I gave up, too many syntax errors.

          2002 - got enough of a wage to afford buying a 486 with 8MB RAM and 120MB HDD and the US Robotics modem. 8 month worth of savings. EMAILftp to funet.fi to get linux (thanks to Trumpet Winsock).

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          • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday June 29 2017, @05:42AM

            by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 29 2017, @05:42AM (#532834) Journal

            I forgot. The in '99 286 had 256kB on RAM not 2MB.

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          • (Score: 2) by Spamalope on Thursday June 29 2017, @08:50AM (3 children)

            by Spamalope (5233) on Thursday June 29 2017, @08:50AM (#532867) Homepage

            Wow, '99 is late for a 286. Was that a typo and you meant '89?

            • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:12AM (2 children)

              by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:12AM (#532888) Journal

              Yes, that 1989, 1988 and 1992 instead of 1999, 1998 and 2001.
              Hypoglycemia, I guess.

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              • (Score: 2) by tibman on Friday July 14 2017, @10:07PM (1 child)

                by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 14 2017, @10:07PM (#539369)

                Glad that was a typo! Was thinking about the 400mhz AMD k6-2 i had in 1999. Glorious gaming rig with a 3Dfx Voodoo 3 2000.

                That 486 in 1992 was 33 or 66mhz? Did it have a turbo button?!

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                • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 14 2017, @11:51PM

                  by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 14 2017, @11:51PM (#539405) Journal

                  Turbo button.

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          • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday July 03 2017, @09:13PM (1 child)

            by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Monday July 03 2017, @09:13PM (#534583) Homepage
            > communist regime at that time

            May I ask which one, as I sit in the comfort of a modernised, liberated, and otherwise westernised Estonia?
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            • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 03 2017, @10:27PM

              by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 03 2017, @10:27PM (#534593) Journal

              Only the fact that I hate putting too much about myself in a public place stops me in answering to your question.
              My apologies for that - the only info: southwards of Estonia (which is of course self-evident, since northward of Estonia there's no other country formally under a communist regime).

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        • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday July 10 2017, @04:14AM

          by hemocyanin (186) on Monday July 10 2017, @04:14AM (#537022) Journal

          I don't recall the brand, buy my first modem was 2400.

      • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Tuesday July 18 2017, @01:01AM (1 child)

        by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Tuesday July 18 2017, @01:01AM (#540674) Homepage Journal

        I'm curious, do you know if the systems you were connecting to had more than 9600 baud modems? For years I had a hell of a time with the connection every time it would rain. By the time they would send someone out, the line would dry out.

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        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday July 18 2017, @01:38AM

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 18 2017, @01:38AM (#540685) Journal

          I'm curious, do you know if the systems you were connecting to had more than 9600 baud modems?

          As it happens, yes, I know; they did, also on 14.4kbaud modems.

          For years I had a hell of a time with the connection every time it would rain. By the time they would send someone out, the line would dry out.

          That's the very reason no connection over 9600 was stable. As the infrastructure was out of any of the two sides' control, no attempt was ever made to send someone out, it was well understood it will be useless.

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