7 Aug
2008
7 Aug
'08
9:02 a.m.
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Jules Richardson wrote:
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
300 baud was great for reading messages, but it sucked hard when doing a
full-disk transfer (Punter!) on a C-64. The sad thing is that the net has
degraded into such a spam fest that real boards are starting to look
pretty attractive again. While much diminished in size, FidoNet is still
around and so are many other networks based on FidoNet standards. DoveNET
has been doing really well in the last few years due to the resurgent
Synchronet BBS software.
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
but dial-up sucks.
Surely it fits better with vintage computer collecting? I'm surprised that
any of us are on broadband... ;)
Thankfully I missed the 300 baud (and earlier) era - but I still landed in
the middle of 2400 times, and that was painful enough! Although I seem to
remember being perfectly happy when things progressed to 33.6K - I couldn't
imagine making use of anything faster, and all the various non-WWW services
did all that I could ever need.