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03-05-2007, 11:50 AM
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Broadband
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03-05-2007, 11:53 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Walcha , NSW
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YAY! Finally a service that is faster than the ball return on lane 1 at Armidale tenpin bowl!
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03-05-2007, 11:55 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Blaxland, N.S.W.
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In Kilcoy? "What's the world coming to?", I ask.
Nah, wonderful to hear, Nettie. I have ADSL (the slowest available) here but even that is five or six times better than my old 56Kbps dial-up system.
All you have to worry about now is the additional bandwidth you will gobble up.
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03-05-2007, 11:57 AM
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Support your local RFS
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Wamboin NSW
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Good one JJJ, I presume we will be seeing lots of posts from you now.
Cheers
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03-05-2007, 12:13 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Nice one triple j.
You're gonna love it !
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03-05-2007, 12:15 PM
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Good one!!! 
I used dial-up for the first time in months the other day 
Talk about Welcome To The Dark Ages 
The difference is stunning.
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03-05-2007, 01:35 PM
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John,
It's satellite broadband, so that's ADSL isn't it?. But 512kps is lightning fast compared to 26.2kps.
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03-05-2007, 01:49 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: NEWCASTLE NSW Australia
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well then, now you can download whatever image you like!!!
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03-05-2007, 01:50 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Geeveston, Tasmania
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If it's 1-way satellite, then it's dialup as far as your uplink goes (from you out to the Internet). The download is via satellite at 512Kbps.
What ever it's called, it's a big step up from the 26kbps 'service'.
(Who remembers 1200 bps acoustic couplers?)
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03-05-2007, 02:06 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Gerringong
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Quote:
Originally Posted by snowyskiesau
.....Who remembers 1200 bps acoustic couplers?
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Now, that is sad!  I think I entered somewhere around 2400 bps modems, running carbon copy on PCs at each end.
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03-05-2007, 02:37 PM
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Sure is good getting ADSL. I don't use it heavily but when I use it I'm glad of my 8 mbps through iiNet's ADSL2.
I started out on 1200 and remember quite clearly upgrading to 2400 then 14.4kbps.
I remember spending night after night during highschool dialing up various BBS like Omen, which I then joined for internet, then got bought out by iiNet.
I bet before long someone will pipe up with a story about punch cards in this thread
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03-05-2007, 03:31 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rogerg
....I bet before long someone will pipe up with a story about punch cards in this thread.... |
Yeah! remember how you could jam up the print head if you put cards through the punch to print the card content along the top and it they contained unprintable characters! Uni computer science undergrad days - around 1975 vintage!
Last edited by erick; 03-05-2007 at 03:44 PM.
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03-05-2007, 03:35 PM
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Location: Melbourne
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Welcome to the 21st century
Once the provision procedures for my isp get sorted, I'll be moving to adsl2+
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03-05-2007, 04:08 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by erick
Yeah! remember how you could jam up the print head if you put cards through the punch to print the card content along the top and it they contained unprintable characters! Uni computer science undergrad days - around 1975 vintage! |
Yeah, and I was the one who had to come and fix them. Bloody students!
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03-05-2007, 04:18 PM
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Location: Gerringong
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Quote:
Originally Posted by snowyskiesau
Yeah, and I was the one who had to come and fix them. Bloody students!
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But we never did it on purpose 
Actually you were stupid if you did - working card punch/readers were like diamonds - we queued for ages to get onto one for our 15 min quota!
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03-05-2007, 06:46 PM
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Let there be night...
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Hobart, TAS
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Quote:
Originally Posted by snowyskiesau
If it's 1-way satellite, then it's dialup as far as your uplink goes (from you out to the Internet). The download is via satellite at 512Kbps.
What ever it's called, it's a big step up from the 26kbps 'service'.
(Who remembers 1200 bps acoustic couplers?)
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I worked for IBM as an engineer in the late 70's/early 80's - and we used to link up to remote sites at 110 bps running "start/stop" protocol. Then came the big bang and we got 300 baud modems running SDLC. Now THAT was fast!
Eight inch diskettes also upped their storage capacity at that time too.... to 88kb.
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03-05-2007, 07:07 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Gerringong
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Omaroo
Eight inch diskettes also upped their storage capacity at that time too.... to 88kb.
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I could only drool over floppy disks in 1974! The place I worked for stayed with paper tape for our Nova Fairchild program storage 
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03-05-2007, 07:08 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: China
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At home I live in the dark age and still use dial up. But at TAFE its broadband, so if I need to download any big files, MP3's etc I do it at school
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03-05-2007, 07:31 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Sydney
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rogerg
I bet before long someone will pipe up with a story about punch cards in this thread
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Yep, OK, as an undergraduate in engineering at UNSW I had to do lots of programming assignments, and these were prepared on punched cards.
All of us spent ages on these card punch machines, one per line I think, in Fortran IV, making our programs, bundling the cards with a rubber band, and leaving them in the pigeon hole in the Elec Eng Building at Kenso.
One day I crossed the quad in a very high wind and tripped. You guessed it, a shower of cards went as high as the building.
Ah well, back to the keyboard.
GeoffW1
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03-05-2007, 07:36 PM
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Which years, Geoff? Maybe we crossed paths in 1975-7?
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