...a decwriter at 110 baud--especially with the way those things ate ribbons; or the twenty-minute drive, each way, and calming a flaky security system, to handle midnight emergencies at ork.("There's a storm coming--shut down the VAX and all the UN*X boxen!") Gimme a glass tty at 300, over either of those, any day!
Transfer files that way? Only if it was faster than driving there; but that hardly qualifies as "it s-cked".
The funny thing is, there are still times I'm lucky to get 300bps throughput, between any two random points--they're just a small minority of occasions, now, instead of being most (or all) of the time.
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HadEnuf?
"The more they overtake the plumbing, the easier it is to plug up the drain."
-- Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, U.S.S. Enterprise |
