[TriLUG] Piece of History

[William Sutton]

Why yes, I can play a joker...

When my father was getting a degree, he would take me to the computer lab. 
I remember using punch cards (as bookmarks) and watching the old line 
printers and cradle modems in use....

William Sutton

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Justis Peters wrote:

> Tarus Balog wrote:
>> On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Greg Brown wrote:
>>
>>> I remember going from 2400 baud to 9600 then 14.4k.. wow, brings
>>> back some
>>> memories of my IBM ISP and surfing the net with OS/2 back in the day.
>>>
>>
>> Bah. I remember that when I went from 1200 baud to 2400 baud it was
>> the first time I couldn't read BBS posts as fast as they were printed.
>>
>> (grin)
>>
> Greg and Tarus,
>
> Good to see your names!  It's been too long since we've talked.  I hope
> you're both doing well.
>
> If the two of you are going to play jacks and queens when I have a king
> in my hand, I've got to put my cards on the table.  My first modem was
> 300 baud and it plugged into the joystick port on my Atari 800.  When I
> later moved to 1200 baud, it was quite refreshing.
>
> Does anybody have the ace?  Acoustic coupler with less than 300 baud
> wins the round.  Unless there's a trump card or a joker I've never heard of.
>
> Kind regards,
> Justis
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