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Almost a good as my 300 baud Hayes Micromodem ][

My favorite BBS was called "The Green Lantern BBS" I used a 300 baud in the early days on a trs 80 then moved to a tandy 1000 EX

hehe


sending email via FIDOnet before the internet came along

>> ^artician:

>This takes me back to 1983 with a 300 baud Volksmodem
Oh yeah? Well it takes ME back to 1844, telegraphing morse-code!


Kids nowadays.

I remember 1066, flashing shiny surfaces from frigate to frigate.

>This takes me back to 1983 with a 300 baud Volksmodem

Oh yeah? Well it takes ME back to 1844, telegraphing morse-code!

OMG I de-reverbed it and was able to connect to this with my modem and download some cat porn...

> so I can feel like it's 1996 again...

This takes me back to 1983 with a 300 baud Volksmodem

Color ASCII? Graphics? Feh! At 12, I was being targeted by sexual predators on GEnie at 300 baud before most people ever heard of social networking!

Quite a bit faster than my 300 baud modem back in the 80's, but comparable to my 56k modem in the 90's.

A very important piece of history, there.

I remember when this was popular, I was trading Commodore 64 warez with WizKid over 300 baud modems... we worked for HOURS to get a 32 kb file to transfer successfully.

pfft, old, my first was an acoustic coupled 300 Baud modem like the one in the movie War Games. Ally Sheedy optional.

Did you guys have to embed videos with punch cards back then, after you connected with your lightning-fast 300 baud modems on your Commodore 64s? (Except for dag, of course. He was fetching coffee and LSD for Steve Jobs in his garage.)

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You kids with your 9600 baud modems. 300 baud was good enough for me. I downloaded Castle Wolfenstein overnight and from a BBS in New Jersey - and it was good. (no not that Castle Wolfenstein - go back further)

I know, it may make no sense. That is because I am not a true religious values voter. Thus, I have absolutely no morality and I am ultimately destined for Hell(tm). At this juncture it is pointless for me to refrain from making fun of religion. If I stop now, I am still going to Hell(tm)

If I am to suffer an eternity being tortured by the big cloven hoofed red-guy(tm) with horns and a pitch fork, I might as well go out in an intense blaze fueled by fiery brimstone, dragged tooth an nail by Beelzebub and his Quasit army into the depths of the nine hells. I suspect the Leprechauns living in the upper levels of the underworld just below my tulip patch will laugh... teary eyed... at me, as I swoop past them when the Earth opens to claim it's luscious, juicy prize.

After the first decade, both the tortured soul and the demons must become rather bored. Rather repetitive it must be to torture the same person over and over and over again. After a while it just becomes monotonous and not unlike working for the Department of Public Works. Nowhere as exciting as teaching 'Exorcism 101' at the Vatican, or 'How To Maintain 21 Virgins And Have Sex With Them Too' as taught at so many Madrassa around the Middle East.

I suspect Hell must be quite a heavily populated place. Especially with the Earth's population increasing to FAR beyond what it was 6000 years ago. A full 6.6 billion strong! Though as the entire universe is only 6000 years old, they most certainly must have planned ahead to reserve plenty of real estate. They will be fine I am certain. Considering the Earth's diameter is quite a large 12,756.1 km. As a result, we can further calculate the Earth's Volume, which is 1,097,509,500,000,000,000,000 cubic meters. Taking that into account we have PLENTY of fire and brimstone for ALL! Plenty of room in Hell(tm) I say! At least I won't be in cramped quarters. Plenty of room for a few US military bases, and a Pentecostal Church. Demons just LOVE speaking in tongues. Being forked and all, they are quite adept at the language.

Peace.


>> ^MarineGunrock:
No, I say it because just about every one of your comments has something to do with insulting Christians - even on videos that have nothing to do with religion.
In reply to this comment by honkeytonk73:
>> ^MarineGunrock:
You really are a hateful sumbitch.
In reply to this comment by honkeytonk73:
Voter disenfranchising in the name of JEEEESUS. All for the sake of maintaining 'values voter' superiority. Christian morality at it's finest I say.


I probably should not have singled out values voters as being solely Christian. I apologize as that is wholly not fair in the least. Though those not able to speak to invisible magical friends simply have no values, so apparently they cannot be taken into consideration.
I wouldn't call myself hateful (others may and have the right to do so). Rather, I consider myself to be equally unbound by any form of deistic superstition among the hundreds which currently exist and the greater number which has existed in the past.
To elaborate, for those who have interest:
Each superstition in their own right is -entirely- correct in that they are the 'one' true faith. Everyone is correct, as it makes perfect sense. It is also politically correct to roll over and agree that everyone is equally deluded. Life is simpler that way is it not?
So now... I will now go bathe in the Lake of Fire(tm) for my sins, wherever that may be. I'll be sure to let everyone know if fire can exist in a liquid form... though I highly suspect it will be a lake of superheated plasma, rather than fire. In that case, I suspect the environment in hell is of quite high pressure.
The typical maximum pressure at which the human body can maintain life is measurable scientifically. On the other hand.. the non-corporeal 'spirit' with zero nerve endings, could potentially withstand infinite pressure. But then what would be the point? With no nerves, can one have pain? So what is the purpose of torture then? Maybe the big red horned guys just insult the damned denizens over and over again... and that is how they torture.
These are such insults I suspect I will endure in the various supposed afterlives:
"No your mother is NOT Aphrodite, I said a HERMAPHRODITE you nincompoop!"
"Your hair is as big as Tammy Fae Bakker and your eyelashes help you fly!"
"You smell like an all too lonely Arabian goat herder!"
"Your mother was a priestess of Lesbos!"
"Your real father was Pan, your momma got rammed darn good eh Mr coven hooves?"
I shall update everyone from Hell(tm) when I arrive. I hope they have broadband. Watch, one torture is to only provide a 300 baud inernet connection. Upper case text only. TRS-80 COCO!!

This is such a great project. I'm looking forward to hearing more reports about it after a few more months and years of deployment.

To any naysayers: you probably weren't around/interested when this whole home computer thing was in its infancy. Monochrome screens. Punch cards were not unheard of. 300 baud modems (thats 150 bps, kids....not kbps, not Mbps). 64k of RAM would have been more than enough memory for anyone. We had *very* limited systems with little connectivity to each other or anything else. These $100 laptops would have looked incredibly powerful and been fascinating as hell.

Also, I agree with dgandhi and dag: these need to be sold to 1st world countries at inflated costs. This would feed money into the project, and kill off any chance of a black market forming. I'd buy one.

Makin' ladies at 300 BAUD.