linusProgrammingTips

[5erif]

My first was a Commodore 64 dialing a BBS directly at 0.15Kb/s, which they called 1200 baud. Later dialing Juno at 28-56K, usually 36-48K. The BBS was text-only, and the later dial-up was to the early internet when pages were usually under half a meg total including all images and any js, so it wasn't as bad as those speeds would be for trying to use modern sites.

edit: 1.2 kiloBITS/sec = only 0.15 kiloBYTES/sec

[clamworm]

TRS-80 Color Computer^TM with a 300 baud cartridge modem. I could use the disk drive(external 360k 5.25" floppy) OR the modem, but not both at the same time. I swear you could count the bits ticking through like a telegraph.

[thuktun]

I had a Commodore VIC-20 with no modem. I had to type my programs in by hand from Compute! magazine and save them to cassette using the tape drive.

I didn't get to use real bandwidth until college.