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The resume was the clincher. You'd spent over an hour getting 3/4 the way through downloading an enormous 1M file to drop to line noise. OK, start again... Sav
by anexprogrammer 10y ago
The resume was the clincher. You'd spent over an hour getting 3/4 the way through downloading an enormous 1M file to drop to line noise. OK, start again...
Saving 400+ for a Courier HST to go an insanely fast 12k (very rarely). They beat everything else at holding a line though.
- sllabres 10y agoSaving for a Zyxel and get 16800 :) Lots of good memories for the Elite 2864ID (ISDN) and U-1496E. I had a project ~15 years ago with several thousand FAX Clients, and interestingly we had problems with every hardware card or modem we used except the (even then quite old) U-1496E which worked without flaw, whatever customer send data.
- anexprogrammer 10y agoAs soon as you saved and bought, they announced 56k! Fun times. :p Talking of modems, a place I worked around '90 had racks full of modems for customer dial-in. What never occurred to me until I saw it was each one needed a phone line - half the back wall was covered with phone points! Some years later a project was trying to do caller ID to computer. Simple idea, ridiculous number of issues. We found one modem that actually talked UK CLI of the dozens that claimed to. UK Cable spoke US CLI.