[ale] new to town, not to *nix

[Jim Kinney]

I am VERY happy to say I've never used one. It's pretty clever when you
think about it, though.

I did use an analog tape recorder for data storage. It was basically
one-way acoustic coupling with a cassette tape.

On Feb 18, 2017 12:58 AM, "James Taylor" <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>
wrote:

> 110 baud acoustic coupler, anyone...?
>
>
> James Taylor
> 678-697-9420
> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
>
>
>
> >>> Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> 2/17/2017 5:16 PM >>>
> 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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