[olug] Cox High Speed Internet

[Don Kauffman]

Reminiscing always tokes me back to my old Kaypro 2 and 10. The 10 had a
300 bpw modem built in but I found a 1200bps that hooked to the serial
port for about $100.  It had a 10 mb hard drive and was all  text based
-- none of this GOO-I stuff! :-) I liked using CP/M (that's their OS).
Ahhhh nostalgia! Would I go back? Naahhhhh! Unless there was a Kaypro 
Linux port  .. .. . 

Don Kauffman 

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 14:54, Sean Edwards wrote:
> Um . . . in 1982 I would dial into a BBS with my Radio
> Shack Color Computer II and a 300bps (that's .3kbps)
> modem.  I remember when 2.4kbps came out, and that was
> screaming! 9.6kbps was unheard of for
> consumer/residential use, that kind of speed was for
> data centers!
> 
> On a side note, I would then have to download to audio
> tape, shut down, remove the modem cartridge, plug in
> the floppy drive cartridge, start up, and transfer
> from audio tape to floppy drive.
> 
> OS/9 was a POSIX OS for the Color Computer and it was
> awesome!
> 
> -=Sean Edwards=-
> cybersean3000 at yahoo.com
> --- Gregory Thomas <netsaint at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > Who remembers when 9.6k was enough?
> > 
> > Now, we have a entire generation moaning "why cant i
> > have it now"
> > 
> > Ben Dinger wrote:
> > 
> > >On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 05:18:17PM -0700, Eric Lusk
> > wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>My only problem with Cox is when I had them before
> > >>they blocked port 80 :(  I run a web server, so
> > ended
> > >>up with Qwest's new 1500 down/1024 up package.
> > >>I guess you CAN get the port 80 block taken off,
> > but
> > >>from what I heard it's somewhat spendy, have to
> > call
> > >>it a "business" account.
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >That new Qwest package is by far THE SHIT.  I saved
> > my company several hundred dolares a month by going
> > to the 1.5/1 (or 896) package in our Fremont offsite
> > instead of our old 768/768 circuit.  According to
> > Qwest (when we signed up), to get the port blockage
> > off all you need is a static IP block.  No biggie
> > there. 
> > >
> > >Oh, and, it became a conveinent place for me to put
> > my web/email server due to extermely low utilization
> > of the connection there, and well - ALLTEL'S DSL
> > TIERS SUCK THE BALLS AND ASS. Oh, did I say that? :)
> > 
> > >
> > >Anyway, I really, really, wish that we could get
> > the speed options in Lincoln that you omaha folk are
> > blessed with.  The best economy-wise we can do is
> > TWC's 3MB/384k Cable.  Alltel's "best" upload
> > offering is the 512k/512k DSL "ultra".  They should
> > be shot. 
> > >
> > >Ahem.. anyway, heh.. lucky bastards ;). 
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > 
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