[ale] new to town, not to *nix

[Jim Lynch]

I still have one


On 02/18/2017 12:54 AM, James Taylor wrote:
> 110 baud acoustic coupler, anyone...?
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>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
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>>> 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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