Re: Media Question 1

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:28:12 +0100, Juliet Papa Golf <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:22:25 +0100, Steve Walton
><sj_walton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>On 30 Sep 2005 18:21:10 GMT, Marcus Houlden <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:32:07 +0100, Paul Hyett <pah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>wrote the following to uk.media.tv.misc:
>>>
>>>> If only the WWW had been around when I was at school - I could have
>>>> copied whole articles off there, rather than copying them straight out
>>>> of books... :)
>>>
>>>We did have net access at 6th form college (95 - 97), but it was a single
>>>machine sharing a line with the phone in the computer room. Fun trying to
>>>access the Tomorrow's World website at about 12 Kbps.
>>>
>>you should be so lucky.
>>93 -94 I remember my first web access to a chinese university website
>>at 9600 baud
>
>You should be so lucky, 85-86 I remember accessing my firm's bulletin
>board using a 50 baud modem and acoustic coupler, downloading files to
>blow to a 1Kbit EPROM.
>
50 ??
110 or 300 more like

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Steve
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