Re: Nostalgia for a slower world xRe: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1

From	Andreas Kohlbach <july15.7.ankman@spamgourmet.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Nostalgia for a slower world xRe: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1
Date	2015-07-16 16:55 -0400
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Robert Heller wrote on 16. July 2015:
>
> At Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:08:23 -0700 Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>
>> 	I must be one of the few who never used 0S/2 and so never did those 
>> updates.  I was using the Amiga 2000b with a accelerator board
>> holding a 68060 at 50 Mega-Hertz and 64 Megabytes of ram.  I got TCP/IP
>> running via a software called Miami from a guy who later went to work
>> for a Northern California company and gave up on selling stuff to 
>> pirates,  I had a 56K Modem as well as all those intermediate to the 
>> 2400 baud modem.  Some were given to me by people who moved on earlier
>> to a DSL, etc,
>> >
>> > And 58K was the fastest it would ever be. The experts told us the phone line
>> > just could not support any greater rate. It was just impossible.
>> >
>
> The old phone lines in Western Mass are no longer able to go to 56K (at least
> mine isn't). I have the throttle my modem down to 33K to get a reliable
> connection.

I guess that depended largely how far you were away from your switch (or
what ever it's called). I was playing with the V90 USR Sportster back in
the late 90s and had figured forcing some 42K connection brought a
reliable connection, while 44K already gave frequent carrier losses.
-- 
Andreas

I use a Unix based operating system, which means I get laid almost as often
as I have to reboot my computer.

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Re: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1 faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-07-13 18:00 +1000
  Re: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1 Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-07-13 07:37 -0700
    Re: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1 faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-07-14 22:00 +1000
      Re: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1 Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-07-14 07:59 -0700
        Re: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1 faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-07-16 13:33 +1000
          Nostalgia for a slower world xRe: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1 Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-07-15 22:08 -0700
            Re: Nostalgia for a slower world xRe: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of  Happiness 1 Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-16 05:30 -0500
              Re: Nostalgia for a slower world xRe: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of  Happiness 1 Andreas Kohlbach <july15.7.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-07-16 16:55 -0400
                Re: Nostalgia for a slower world xRe: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of  Happiness 1 Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-07-16 14:14 -0700
  Re: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1 noydb@no.way (Bruce Sinclair) - 2015-07-13 23:12 +0000

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