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I think that things were already better even then. The wonder of the thing is how retro it was in its own time. I was going to say Heath-Robinson, but it wasn't complex at all, rather the contrary: stripped down, bare bones, not much smarts at the bottom layers, dumb even, low-low bandwidth, and robust as hell. On 28/12/2013, Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> No mistake this time. Acoustic coupler modems! Cassettes! There are a few >> other members here feeling nostalgic, I just bet. >> > > Although I've used both (and still have a selection of the latter for my > zx81, spectrum and dragon 32), I have very little fondness for either. > > Things are better now. Much, much better. > -- phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq