On 07/08/2014 01:56 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Always Learning wrote: >> On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 13:19 -0400, m.roth at 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..... > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >