[ale] new to town, not to *nix

[Pete Hardie]

I remember having to fight the variations of MNP that GaTech and my modem
had, to get a connection to do classwork

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I remember having a 2400 baud modem (took a lightning strike over the
> phone line), got a 33.6 with the new machine. Did 56k for a while and then
> jumped to dual-line ISDN and single mostly to keep costs down. Apparently I
> was residential customer #4 for DSL in Georgia. That was a substantial
> upgrade. Spent lots of time on the phone with Bell South tier3 support :-)
>
> I think Prodigy, first ISP, had a 12 or 24 hour limit. Earthlink was 33.6
> through ISDN. Their limit was 24 hours. The ISDN limit was none for single
> line and $1/hr extra for the second line. Wife set the limit on that :-)
>
> I'm pretty sure the Slackware download was on the 33.6 kbps gear as the
> end of that modem was the i386dx system (with the 387 coprocessor!).
>
> On Feb 17, 2017 4:40 PM, "Joey Kelly" <joey at joeykelly.net> wrote:
>
>> On 02/17/2017 03:17 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>
>> Welcome to Atlanta!
>>
>> Slackware was my first distro. 7 floppy download over dialup with my wife
>> picking up the phone to see if I was on the computer. :-)
>>
>>
>> Heh. I remember doing 40MB OS/2 fixpacks on a 33.6k modem, and my ISP had
>> a 12-hour limit. It was a race, I'll tell ya...
>>
>> --Joey
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 14:32 -0600, Joey Kelly wrote:
>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I'm relocating to Atlanta this weekend, I start an admin job at a
>> hosting company on Monday. I ran the New Orleans LUG for longer than I
>> care to remember, and I'm a Slackware/FreeBSD/Perl guy.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> James P. Kinney III Every time you stop a school, you will have to build
>> a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a
>> dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark
>> Twain http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
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