On 07/08/2014 01:56 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Always Learning wrote:
On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 13:19 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
ROTFLMAO! And can you explain the difference between "cloud" and "time-sharing on a mainframe"?
75 baud on a TTY (clank, clank, clank, ding, thud as the printer head returned to the beginning of the line) and an amazingly fast speed of 300 baud on the up-market Terminet (? spelling).
Perhaps the speeds were 300 and 1,200 baud? It was a long time ago.
Those were the days.
I was dialing in from work to upload homework at 300 baud, around '84. When I got my first modem for my first real PC (we'll skip the CoCo), *I* had 1200 baud. *nyah*
You were late to 1200 baud. I got one of the first Anderson/Jacobson accoustic boxes (before they invented the accoustic coupler). First at 300 baud, then 1200 baud on a DEC Writer II. It was '83. Then Bell head said I would never get 300 baud working on a non-conditioned line...
But again that is the point. We have moved on from there. We got the memories, so we know the edge cases. Like dealing with X.75 gateways...
But between 1978, when I went back to college, and '81 or os, a year into my first programming job, I was on punch cards; then it was the shared three terminals in the hall. Originally, a 370-168 timeshare, then, after we won the lottery to get it nine months before most everyone, we had our 4300. And we had *real* line printers.....
But I say there *ain't* no differmenints. You'se is gots your share, we had VM regions.....
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