I was thinking of a novel where people meet each other during lunch during
high school and also during after school and on the weekends on the bulletin board. It would be about youth finding themselves and fighting injustice in
the era of 1995-1996. A period piece of historical fiction.

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I was thinking of a novel where people meet each other during lunch during high school and also during after school and on the weekends on the bulletin board. It would be about youth finding themselves and fighting injustice in the era of 1995-1996. A period piece of historical fiction.

Lots of potential for historically accurate stories there, I think it's an interesting idea.

The big question is - what baud rate are they connecting at?


Chris/akacastor

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On 2024-03-29 23:59 AKAcastor said...

The big question is - what baud rate are they connecting at?

I wannt to say my buddy Jason used to call it the speed of smell!

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Its funny i thought i only had a 2400 baud modem back then, but it was really a 14.4!


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My first modem was a 2400 baud. I thought it was flying watching
lines of text scroll when I first called a BBS. Then I upgraded
to a Zoom 14.4 and man was I flying! External Zoom. I was only
13 so I didnt have the money for USR External, but thats what
I always wanted!
I should buy one now just for the heck of it.
-Nugax


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My first modem was a 2400 baud. I thought it was flying watching
lines of text scroll when I first called a BBS. Then I upgraded
to a Zoom 14.4 and man was I flying! External Zoom. I was only
13 so I didnt have the money for USR External, but thats what
I always wanted!
I should buy one now just for the heck of it.

I did exactly that - bought a USR Courier V.Everything (actually a couple) and I finally run them on a BBS, achieving that old goal. I also have a little collection of other modems like Hayes 1200 and Hayes 9600, USR Sportster 14.4 internal new in box (same type I ran my first BBS on), and a Zoom 14.4 - but internal, not the external version.

Zoom is one of the modem brands I remember having a good reputation in the 90s, along with Supra and Zyxel and of course Hayes and USRobotics.

I used a 2400 baud modem calling local BBSes from the school computer lab (one computer had a modem) after school hours, then the first modem I ran on my computer at home was the Sportster 14.4. The jump from 2400 to 14.4 was huge, and then the jump to 28.8 was pretty decent too.


Chris/akacastor

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On 31 Mar 2024, AKAcastor said the following...

I did exactly that - bought a USR Courier V.Everything (actually a
couple) and I finally run them on a BBS, achieving that old goal. I
also have a little collection of other modems like Hayes 1200 and Hayes 9600, USR Sportster 14.4 internal new in box (same type I ran my first
BBS on), and a Zoom 14.4 - but internal, not the external version.

i did the same thing but quite a bit late. phone line didn't ring for more than a year i think. then Diamond Dave called iirc and by then i was using it during a short period i didn't have a cell phone. so i answered it voice. said sorry and cancelled it shortly after.

i'm glad for what he does but it wasn't worth keeping for him to call once year to update the listing :)

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Re: RE: RE: I need to write a novel
By: nugax to Utopian Galt on Sat Mar 30 2024 11:12 pm

My first modem was a 2400 baud. I thought it was flying watching lines of text scroll when I first called a BBS. Then I upgraded to a Zoom 14.4 and man was I flying! External Zoom. I was only 13 so I didnt have the money for USR External, but thats what I always wanted!
I should buy one now just for the heck of it. -Nugax

My first modem was also 2400 baud. Since it was my first modem, I couldn't really compare it to anything, but as a 12-year-old, sometimes I started to feel a little impatient having to wait 20 minutes to download a file that was 1 megabyte in size.. :) I later got a 14.4k modem, and I felt like that was a big improvement in speed.

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Re: RE: RE: I need to write a novel
By: nugax to Utopian Galt on Sat Mar 30 2024 11:12 pm

My first modem was a 2400 baud.

My first modem was 300 baud. It was four of five years later that I upgraded to 1200 baud.

Even small C64 programs take a while to transfer at 300 baud. Full disk downloads took *ages*.
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I actually was just digging in the tech closet and found my old 33.3K PCMCIA modem in a box with my first wireless card next to it!

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I was thinking of a novel where people meet each other during lunch
during high school and also during after school and on the weekends on
the bulletin board. It would be about youth finding themselves and fighting injustice in the era of 1995-1996. A period piece of historical fiction.

No judgment here, just curious as high school theme being 45 seems way too abstract to memorize already... nor as any topic for write ups... but I'm no novel writer either so if I was about writing anything it would be impersonated somehow with me, where I belong today... intellectually.

High schoolers problems is something that totally does not resonate with me.

I know this is still something that neglects me in the role of a writer, unless that would be only one book... so my question is... how old are you if high school is the topic for a novel? Have you ever written anything like that before and it's a continuation or this is something that impersonates with you still today as a writing need?

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My first modem was a 2400 baud. I thought it was flying watching
lines of text scroll when I first called a BBS. Then I upgraded
to a Zoom 14.4 and man was I flying! External Zoom. I was only
13 so I didnt have the money for USR External, but thats what
I always wanted!

I used 14.4 modem in the times of dial-up internet as my first networking experience at home as teen. Man that was reasonably fast back then, until I learned the bill!

-h1

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I used 14.4 modem in the times of dial-up internet as my
first networking experience at home as teen. Man that
was reasonably fast back then, until I learned the bill!

When I got my 486, I got with it a USRobotics Sportster 14.4 modem and it was so great! I had been calling BBSes from the school using a 2400 baud modem, so finally getting my own modem and it was SO MUCH FASTER was really spectacular.

When the phone bill came, my parents used to mark which calls were theirs and have me pay for the rest - it was quicker to add up the few calls they made on the telephone than to add up the many calls I made with the modem. I got a weekly/monthly allowance as a kid, until I got a modem, then it became payment toward that month's phone bill.


Chris/akacastor


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I used 14.4 modem in the times of dial-up internet as my first networking experience at home as teen. Man that was reasonably fast back then,
until I learned the bill!

lol

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Sometimes people write for different audiences. Its a highly popular genre to write for 14-25 year olds.


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Re: Re: I need to write a novel
By: hollowone to Matthew Munson on Sat Apr 20 2024 02:10 pm

I know this is still something that neglects me in the role of a writer, unless that would be only one book... so my question is... how old are you if high school is the topic for a novel? Have you ever written anything like that before and it's a continuation or this is something that impersonates with you still today as a writing need?

To be honest, having gone through high-school is all the qualification you need in order to exploit the subject. I left school many years ago and still managed to write a "school themed" short story people liked. It had also a sinister army of Death that bought orphans for their ranks, but that is a minor detail :-)


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