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For awhile as a kid, I had smooth-scrolling on a terminal (probably a Wyse WY-50) on dialup 2400 baud, and I recall that being just about right for reading many
by neilv 3y ago
For awhile as a kid, I had smooth-scrolling on a terminal (probably a Wyse WY-50) on dialup 2400 baud, and I recall that being just about right for reading many lines of text as they scrolled on a non-cursor-addressing BBS.
Characters would be received pretty fast, so your reading wasn't lagging by much.
- whartung 3y agoBack in the early days when I was working on a PET 2001, I wrote a routine to slow down the printing of text, so that it would look like it was coming from something akin to a 300 baud system. I wanted to make it look like a "real computer".
- Mountain_Skies 3y agoNow you can ask ChatGPT questions and get a similar effect.