🚀 go-pugleaf

Robert Wilkins <bob@cave.org> writes:

> Phil Stripling wrote:
> > 
> > Anonymous <nobody@base.xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
> > > An example:  A knucklehead friend who's always downloading smut .JPGs
> > > from porn sites told me the other day that he finally sat down and
> > > figured it out - his actual, averaged download speed on this junk is as
> > > slow as it was in 1983 with an old 300-baud modem.  How would some zippy
> > > cable modem improve that?
> > 
> > Is it that bad in Europe? If your so-called knucklehead is consistently
> > connected at 300 baud, something other than congestion is wrong.
> 
> Maybe that junk '83 Sinclair needs to be upgraded? 
> 

heyheyhey! _I_ have a Sinclair/Timex with a whopping 48k of RAM! :->
(Actually, it was great for programming in BASIC, but that's another [and
long ago] story.)

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