The Norm Classics by Michael Jantze for October 24, 2021

So glad I don’t have to depend on dial up anymore.

Deet deet deet rreepppppggggooonnn boop boop zeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Now do routers!

Did anyone else get to suffer with acoustic couplers?

Yeah, me. Had a Tandy Model I. Fixed it up with 4K of RAM, printer and acoustic coupler modem. My very first computer. No internet. User bulletin boards. Text only.

A phone line is one 56k data line. Standard 56k modems could not dial each other and get 56k. One end had to be hooked to a digital phone connection of a fractional T1. The big cable was RS232. It managed the serial port and data traffic. SCSI was for Disk, tape, and fast scanners.

Shades of 1994

28K, reading this in 2021 via 186MB of broadband

Everything “wrong” about the internet would be fixed if we went back to carrier pigeons.

So long since I’ve heard the term ‘scuzzy’. Ha Ha.

I just inherited my grandson’s gaming computer to use for household and for my stocks. It’s very much faster than my old one. Especially powering up and shutting down. Just my favorite game is slower. Better graphics I guess. Maybe now I can win.

SCSI? One of the few Mac users at the time. I can’t remember there being a SCSI modem