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Willy@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Remember when it was a big deal if you chose .zip, .rar, or 7z, etc? Now we all have so much bandwidth it doesn't matter.

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Remember when it was a big deal if you chose .zip, .rar, or 7z, etc? Now we all have so much bandwidth it doesn't matter.

Willy@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    Xmodem, Ymodem, Zmodem.

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      Kermit

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        AT&FM1S11=35

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          Those were the days. For anyone under 40 see this for what we dealt with. https://support.usr.com/support/s-modem/s-modem-docs/usrv90.pdf The plug and play section is especially amusing these days.

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            V.42bis was the shit

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          I tried to look it up but google senseless and bing seems to stall when you type it. If I remember, AT&FM1 is return to factory settings option 1. What does the rest or all of it mean? Is S11 the dial speed

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            Yeah &F is factory default, M1 is speaker on only until connect, S11=35 is the dial speed (although we later learned that 50 ms is the minimum). Dial speed was important because we’d have Telemate on constant redial trying to get into the BBSes that were popular but were busy because they only had one or two phone lines.

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              Nice. Thank you. I’m proud I almost remembered that. I never used telemate but I did partner in hosting a small bbs with a friend. FarpointBBS. We had tradewars and the main dude even got it hooked up to the internet in the late days. As you know, way before the www took off.

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                Sooo many good memories.

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              M1 is mute true. Now it’s coming back!

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        punter

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      No love for hs/link?

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        I’ve got a 9600 baud modem! It’s impossible for POTS to ever be faster!!

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