#garfield Logs

Apr 13 2017

07:19 AM * Jymmm slaps a USRobotics 14.4K on the table
07:49 AM * Tom_itx comes back with a 300 baud USRobotics modem
07:52 AM Tom_itx: nice thing about those is you didn't have to pause the screen while reading incoming txt
07:52 AM Tom_itx: and that's where the nice ends...
09:52 AM rue_house: how about accidently leaving the computer online all night and knowing you didn't blow your 4M data plan
09:53 AM rue_house: I remember the days of working out what percentage of an mp3 I needed to download before I could start playing it such that it would finish downloading and playing at the same time
10:54 AM * Jymmm lol @ rue_house
10:55 AM Jymmm: I knew the person who owned the bbs I was on, so no need to keep track of time =)
10:57 AM rue_house: the bbs thing was kinda done when I started with computers, there was a guy, who had 1 line that was sometimes available
11:09 AM Jymmm: He had multiple lines, there would be a trivia game social once a week