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Yeah I remember those CDs. Never had them, they were quite expensive in Europe IIRC. Back in those days having 700MB of stuff was HUGE :P On packet radio it wo
by GekkePrutser 6y ago
Yeah I remember those CDs. Never had them, they were quite expensive in Europe IIRC.
Back in those days having 700MB of stuff was HUGE :P On packet radio it would take me all night to transfer a file of 1-2MB. In fact it was a lot quicker to grab my bicycle and take a floppy over to the friend I was downloading it from. Sneakernet was actually a thing :D
I'll have a look through these archives.
- ido 6y agoDon't know what packet radio is, but during my dialup days I'd be happy to get 5kb/sec download (on supposedly 56kbit connection). I remember moving the computer to another room that had better quality phone line as that affected internet speed.
- bwmabe 6y agoMy first guess was transmitting the audio of a data cassette over HAM radio; but a quick search shows it's something quite different[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio
- stevekemp 6y agoI remember hearing of them, but at the time I didn't have the ability to download files that large over my modem. Recently I've been getting back into CP/M and it took only a few minutes to download a Walnut Creek CP/M CD image from 1994. Largely because of the slow hosting site. So much fun exploring the random contents, will definitely take me a few months to try to run all the binaries, and experiment with them!