[ale] new to town, not to *nix

[Jim Kinney]

I remember having a 2400 baud modem (took a lightning strike over the phone
line), got a 33.6 with the new machine. Did 56k for a while and then jumped
to dual-line ISDN and single mostly to keep costs down. Apparently I was
residential customer #4 for DSL in Georgia. That was a substantial upgrade.
Spent lots of time on the phone with Bell South tier3 support :-)

I think Prodigy, first ISP, had a 12 or 24 hour limit. Earthlink was 33.6
through ISDN. Their limit was 24 hours. The ISDN limit was none for single
line and $1/hr extra for the second line. Wife set the limit on that :-)

I'm pretty sure the Slackware download was on the 33.6 kbps gear as the end
of that modem was the i386dx system (with the 387 coprocessor!).

On Feb 17, 2017 4:40 PM, "Joey Kelly" <joey at joeykelly.net> wrote:

> On 02/17/2017 03:17 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> Welcome to Atlanta!
>
> Slackware was my first distro. 7 floppy download over dialup with my wife
> picking up the phone to see if I was on the computer. :-)
>
>
> Heh. I remember doing 40MB OS/2 fixpacks on a 33.6k modem, and my ISP had
> a 12-hour limit. It was a race, I'll tell ya...
>
> --Joey
>
>
> On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 14:32 -0600, Joey Kelly wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm relocating to Atlanta this weekend, I start an admin job at a
> hosting company on Monday. I ran the New Orleans LUG for longer than I
> care to remember, and I'm a Slackware/FreeBSD/Perl guy.
>
>
> --
>
> James P. Kinney III Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a
> jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a
> dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark
> Twain http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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