Speed now & then

[Murray McCullough]

I’m not trying to date myself but have things truly sped up? In 1970’s
Toronto I had a classic computer, sorry can’t recall what it was, connected
to a 300 baud modem; by early 80’s had ‘zoomed’ to 9600 baud. Oh, my! [ A
typical file size to download was probably 1 MB. ] Speed indeed! Yet now,
here in rural Ontario, Canada, I’m at 5MB/s. Yikes! (Friends in Toronto are
at 50MB/s.) We can do the math but content, particularly multimedia, has
swollen in size.[ 1 GB is not unheard of. ] Were classic computing days
that much slower? Happy computing. Murray  -:)

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