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Old 03-02-2020, 10:19 AM
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I probably found the old forum right after it started - '97 maybe?

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Old 03-02-2020, 10:29 AM
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I probably found the old forum right after it started - '97 maybe?
So was that a 28.8k dial up connection, or did you have the high tech 56K?
Still remeber running out and getting a 56K modem when AOL supported it. want to say that was a little before 97, but I am not positive.
Such a big deal back then. Could load a 1mp picture in under a minute. Freaky fast!

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Old 03-02-2020, 11:46 AM
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So was that a 28.8k dial up connection, or did you have the high tech 56K?
Still remeber running out and getting a 56K modem when AOL supported it. want to say that was a little before 97, but I am not positive.
Such a big deal back then. Could load a 1mp picture in under a minute. Freaky fast!
I didn't have ANYTHING! I had to log-in from work, during my lunch break ;-) It was probably close to two years later, before I had internet access at the house.

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'67 Firebird [sold], ; 11.27 @ 119.61, 7.167 @ 96.07, with UD 280/280 (108LSA/ 109 ICL)solid cam. [1.537, 7.233 @93.61, 11.46 @ 115.4 w/ old UD 288/296 108 hydraulic cam] Feb '05 HPP, home-ported "16" D-ports, dished pistons (pump gas only), 3.42 gears, 275/60 DR's, 750DP, T2, full exhaust
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Old 03-02-2020, 12:21 PM
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So was that a 28.8k dial up connection, or did you have the high tech 56K?
Still remeber running out and getting a 56K modem when AOL supported it. want to say that was a little before 97, but I am not positive.
Such a big deal back then. Could load a 1mp picture in under a minute. Freaky fast!
28.8K???

I don't remember what year it was, guessing somewhere about 1980. We were running our company on a Radio Shack TRS-80 model 3. Dow Jones announced a service where, if you programmed your own communications protocol (they gave parameters) you could access a "real time" news agency, with stock quotes, current weather, and movie reviews. I think my daughter would have broken the bank had I allowed her unlimited access to the movie reviews.

We had a 300 baud dial-up modem at the time.

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