chumptastic dot org 25 Jan
08
i still have a working 2400 baud external modem in my closet…
there was a great line in last sunday’s toronto star article entitled “road testing the $100 laptop’s ‘appropriate technology'” by ryan bigge, discussing the TRS-80 model 100, a laptop from 1983:
for any youngsters reading this, 300-baud is only slightly faster than watching jean-dominique bauby composing a sentence in the diving bell and the butterfly.
and if you haven’t seen that film, please please do.
