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by smitelli 1057 days ago
I'm the author of https://cosmodoc.org (Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure) which I genuinely plan to finish someday.
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Awesome.

> Those poor saps with 2,400 bps modems would spend almost a full half hour doing this.

This was me! Still remember it to this day.

I was always envious of the people with 1200 baud modems... I had a 300 without dialer so had to use a phone to dial the number, wait for the answer and flip a switch for the modem to take over :-)