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To: Darksheare

I’ve been around FR long enough to remember the days when posts were pulled because they had too many images. Almost everybody had dial-up 28.8kps modems (the richer among us had 33.6kps Sportsters) and we would all squawk when images would cause our pages to take 2-3 minutes to load.


9 posted on 04/09/2013 5:39:59 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

Yeah, I should have put [image heavy] in teh title.
*Drats, stupid stupid stupid!*


11 posted on 04/09/2013 5:41:25 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: SamAdams76
I had a 33.6 modem that I installed on my 25mhz Tandy... not rich at all.... the box looked something like this

http://images.highspeedbackbone.net/skuimages/large/10033645.jpg

696 posted on 04/12/2013 3:34:14 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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