Whoa. I still have my old ST-225 in the closet. A whopping 200-ish kilobyte/sec transfer rate. I bet it still works. We used to have a pretty large MajorBBS here with game connection, and 4 of us would link up to play Doom2, and everyone would complain because the game only loaded as fast as the slowest machine, I guess it had to read the entire couple megabyte WAD file before it launched.
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