Hmmm, 28.8K baud? I can remember when my 300 baud Carterphone modem was styling! UNIX was just starting to make the rounds - the first versions were showing up at the UofM. The hot new item was this microcomputer thingy . . . A few hardy type were actually building their own hardware out of chips; I wire-wrapped my own SC/MP micro and tried to figure out what to do with it. The focus for many in this crowd was tiny basic in 4K. The place were I learned about the inner working of an interpreter core was DDJ. The very crude star-trek game would actually run in some of the available hardware. My Lancaster TV-typewriter was the user interface. The 32 x 16 character display seemed pretty good at the time. A popular input device was the Proko paper tape reader; you pulled the tape past the photodiodes by hand. Of course, getting stuff punched was the trick, that's where the modem came in. You could send your stuff to someone who had a TTY and modem. Barring any bad data transmission, the TTY would punch a permanent copy as it received the data. A few folks in the twin cities had personal DEC hardware (mostly PDP 8) and were the envy of all. As I recall, a PDP11 with an RK05 disk pack and a kelly-green screen Tektronix terminal was unbelievable luxury. We used them at work I fantasized about someday owning a machine as cool as those. Now those were the days! Mark Browne -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Garrett Krueger Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 9:18 PM To: Andrew Zbikowski; TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Next Installfest? The problem is: when you had a 28.8 modem in its day, it WAS fast! Now however... ;) > Debian over the net is a no go over dial-up?!? > > *gets out cane, hunches back* > > When I was your age, I installed Debian over a 28.8 modem. Kids these > days!!! > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list