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Whah! Whah! My alt text only goes to 1500! 40 yrs ago you had to wait 5 minutes for a pic to load. There were few or no Embedded images on a 2400 baud+- internet. Etc. @yianiris. If ur unhappy with the instances, start your own. You dont know how GOOD you have it. Mastodon servers HAVE TO BE easier to set up than the TEXT DRIVEN JNOS/TCPIP I setup on an 8088/XT in the early 1990s. Had to install it MANUALLY ... Hand created directory structures. Modify TEXT files.

Cc @actapopuli@friendica-leipzig.de @actapopuli@fediverse.blog

@heretical_i @actapopuli@friendica-leipzig.de @actapopuli@fediverse.blog

This is not the issue, although you could uplodad and download a/v in newsgroups using uuencode/uudecode converting binaries to text and back.

Did you actually ever download a pic at 2400 baud @yianiris? Bring a thermos of coffee @actapopuli@friendica-leipzig.de @actapopuli@fediverse.blog

My 1st analogue phone modem was 1200 and there were slower older models people threw in the trash by then.
If you start any Randy Schartiger videos on the tube you will hear that familiar scritching sound

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My Epson hx20 w/ a terminal program I wrote in basic v1.1 could get 300 baud. My CoCo3 never went faster than 2400 baud. It was allegedly capable of 9600 using a hacked os9 kernel & Rs232 pack that utilized the game cart port (so I ran os9 on a ramdisk to free up the port from 512k floppy use), but was never able to get it working. It WAS fun watching dropped packet counts increase in Xmodem as baud rates increased, due to line noise. Modems on phone lines eventually reached zerosum @yianiris

@heretical_i Xmodem ... how do you remember such stuff, it rings a bell now that you mentioned it.

I'd rather work on 60s international tractor than an 80s PC but I envy your bio-RAM working so well :)

@yianiris I owned a 65 travelall in the 80s and 90s. A beautiful simple to work on, endlessly repairable tank... I called it "Hank". Note the aftermarket rims on this example. The og ones on mine eventually fatigued and split circumferentially; rim blowouts, after 30 years rolling nearly 2 tons around. Otoh when I rebuilt the motor in the early 90s you could still read the valve part number on the valve faces. Parts were getting scarce... I got the very last dual master cylinder from raybestos

72 B100 lwb converted to camp-mobile, slant6 3 on the tree, mech.lifters and points.
They didn't call me the mopar boy for nothing :)

Mid 80s to late 90s, I donated it to a friend to use as storage in a shipyard, came back and saw someone driving to work daily.

You can only get sick and tired of them, no other defects.

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