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QC and iE 11
techkid:
Surprisingly, no. It was my other pursuit and interest of the time.
(click to show/hide)Think blue hedgehogs...
Method of Madness:
Ahhh, gotcha.
(click to show/hide)Tails, right? :roll:
Slightly related note, I still love how Tails's real name was Miles Prower
techkid:
As far as pun names went, it was pretty good, I will admit :)
Earin:
--- Quote from: Sidhekin on 30 Jul 2014, 12:40 ---I don't think Neverending September is nntp-only. Certainly netiquette is not. As long as there are mailing lists and forums, there'll be September.
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I've found that MUDs sometimes have the anti-September -- a flurry of new, clueless players starting at the beginning of school/university holidays.
Storel:
--- Quote from: techkid on 31 Jul 2014, 06:10 ---But still, I remember the 56k standard that would chug along at 28.8kbps (36.6kbps on a good day). Good times (I was always fascinated by the tones, as annoying as they were...).
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I think this is where I'm supposed to point out that long away and far ago, my first dialup system involved a Pennywhistle (brand name) modem that gloried in three, yes three different speeds: 110, 150, and 300 baud. Note the absence of a K anywhere in there. :cry: We're talking 110/150/300 bits. Per. Second. The "computer" involved was an uppercase-only Teletype model 33 terminal, which used the 110 baud setting, which meant in full-speed output it chugged along at a whole 10 characters per second. (While ASCII bytes are only 8 bits long, the modem was transmitting 1 parity bit and two ECC (Error Correcting Code) bits with each byte, for a total of 11 bits per character.)
We used this terminal to connect from my junior high school to a timesharing system at Wilson High School on the other side of town, and 95% of what we used it for was playing Trek73. (I still have several large rolls of paper containing old game printouts in a box in the basement somewhere.) We're talking slooooooooooow.
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