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Re: Boggle

#650
From: Geoff Gass
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 12:43
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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:
>>Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>
>>>>(At one time, my late wife was working from home.  Her employer set
>>>>her up with a home office.  The computer was connected with a 14,400
>>>>modem and the voice line was connected with am ISDN connection.  Yes,
>>>>their tech people decided on using digital for voice and analog for
>>>>data.  Not relevant to the videophone thread, but stream of
>>>>consciousness from the videophone over voice-line)
>
>>>>Six months later, we went to broadband, and her office took over
>>>>paying the internet portion of our cable bill.
>
>>>This is a quote from discussion in another newsgroup. He hasn't told
>>>me what year this was.
>
>>>My only comment was, "Boggle".
>
>>>ISDN for an extension for a single person and NOT shared with data?
>>>Have you ever heard of such a thing?
>
>>from the 14.4 you'd think early 90s
>
> I wonder. Looking it up, DOCSIS 1.0 is from March, 1997. I have no idea
> what the state of cable broadband was prior to adoption of DOCSIS.

I was thinking that she'd have upgraded to 28.8 or 33.6 sometime after that
came out in the mid 90's
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From: Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com>
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Subject: Re: Boggle
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 12:43:26 +0000 (UTC)
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