[plug] ISPs in WA

[skribe]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:52, Leon Brooks wrote:

> 2400? You young whipper-snappers are just spoiled rotten. In my day, you
> used 1200/75 baud and loved it (the World Chip was the latest and
> greatest, and I watched Andrew Warenczak design, build and sell the
> First Nice Modem based on it) because it was ever so much better than
> the previous generation's 300 baud.

Absolute luxury! We used to have to carry the data packets ourselves 13 miles 
across hot coals and if we forgot to log off before we switched the modem off 
it would explode killing everyone in a 2 mile radius.

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