On January 26, 2020 at 15:59 ka...@biplane.com.au (Karl Auer) wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-01-25 at 22:29 -0600, Aaron Gould wrote:
> > From: Ben Cannon [mailto:b...@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.
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