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| From | Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: Nostalgia for a slower world xRe: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1 |
| Date | 2015-07-16 14:14 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <mo96oa$bau$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (4 earlier) <mo3818$bjk$1@dont-email.me> <mo78jj$ohs$1@dont-email.me> <mo7e5g$4rt$1@dont-email.me> <79-dnfEeyuYlGjrInZ2dnUU7-SWdnZ2d@giganews.com> <87zj2vx1p6.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> |
On 07/16/2015 01:55 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > 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. > That would be distance from the Telephone Exchange. Here I live about a half a mile from the exchange. Of course the TE used to be a building loaded with racks and racks of electrical relays but now it is loaded with racks of servers and other equipment that uses less power than the old electro-mechanical relays. The equipment is also much more compact and the old exchange building I used to see quite often has been sold to a nonprofit that takes care of the elderly. bliss
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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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