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This is how it used to work on BBS's. I had a 1200baud modem connected to my C64, and some of the time I could type faster then the transmission speed of the c
by UI_at_80x24 6y ago
This is how it used to work on BBS's.
I had a 1200baud modem connected to my C64, and some of the time I could type faster then the transmission speed of the connection. It would be 'fun' to be able to type so fast that the computer would end up buffering the letters..words...sentences and I could watch what I had typed scroll out to the terminal. This was the single biggest motivator in learning how to touch-type.
I do know that sometimes the connection was just so poor that it wasn't because I was awesome, it was just a shitty connection. But I never let that truth get in the way of my ego. =)
- Dylan16807 6y agoI wonder what kind of overhead you were dealing with there. As raw characters that would be at least 120 per second. If you send a TCP packet every second it would hold 80. Maybe the connection was bad sometimes but would it really have been so bad that an already-low-frequency modem consistently ran at less than 10% speed? My mind races thinking about the ways to configure a data stream to lose so much speed.
- u801e 6y ago> My mind races thinking about the ways to configure a data stream to lose so much speed. Not quite the same peripheral, but the 1541 disk drive was designed to be backwards compatible with older Commodore models. As a result, it had a very low read and write speed compared to other computer models. I wonder if it was a similar case for the modem.