Hee! Yes... I left off the days when I carried the bootloader program on paper tape... without which the system would not boot.
And yus, I had a 100/300 baud telephone cradle modem. Most of the systems didnt allow the 300 setting unless you paid higher CPU time rates, so at my school we stuck with the 100 baud. When we got to 1200 baud, I thought I was flying, and at 9.6kbps, I thought I'd died and reappeared in heaven.
Good enough! It seems all anyone needs to do is wait, and the stories will seem ancient. "When I was a kid, a terabyte storage unit spun around with spinny disks and cost over a THOUSAND dollars" Aww grandpa... you've told us that story before, and now an exabyte of superdimensional storage is under a penny!
Oh, indeed. And it'll be fascinating to see what kind of social changes that'll bring - imagine that you'll literally be able to copy all the world's knowledge onto a device as small as your thumbnail in a fraction of a second. Sooner or later, that WILL be possible, and our current philosophical approach to the sharing of knowledge and data will need to be replaced with something that's more in tune with technological and sociological change.
My email in 1990 was just chen@decus.com.au. Not even tpchen or chen.tp just plain old unqualified 'chen'. I considered myself quite spoilt at the time because I had 'high speed' (v.22bis yeah baby! ) modem access to a X.25 PAD.
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And yus, I had a 100/300 baud telephone cradle modem. Most of the systems didnt allow the 300 setting unless you paid higher CPU time rates, so at my school we stuck with the 100 baud. When we got to 1200 baud, I thought I was flying, and at 9.6kbps, I thought I'd died and reappeared in heaven.
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I considered myself quite spoilt at the time because I had 'high speed' (v.22bis yeah baby! ) modem access to a X.25 PAD.
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