At last

After having the FTTC cab installed in March 2012, it finally had the power feed fitted last month.

Had modem installed today (well yesterday as it's now after midnight), & it has 80/20 sync

Now a very happy bunny

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

It's just unbelievable when you see the speeds aren't all just stories made up to frustrate people .

Yep, it's a little bit faster than when I started home computing.

Back then in 1977/78 it was 300 baud on my old trusty Tandy TRS80 mod1 + old GPO modem.

Mind you, the printer was slower, 50 baud on an old GPO teleprinter.

Ah. My first printer was 1000lpm in 1966 .

In reply to a post by MadMan:

Yep, it's a little bit faster than when I started home computing.

Back then in 1977/78 it was 300 baud on my old trusty Tandy TRS80 mod1 + old GPO modem.

Mind you, the printer was slower, 50 baud on an old GPO teleprinter.

This brings back memories; just looking at a plastic case of 15 minute tapes that I made on my TRS80 in 1979/1980. Often wonder if I could somehow get them working in some way?

I seem to remember that printers back in our day, cost an arm & a leg

That's why I used the teleprinter (cost £5 as scrap), but was very slow & upper case only. Still, it was fine for printing out listings, when I was programming.

I very soon got fed up with the speed of tapes.

I added the expansion box, & a couple of double sided, 40 track floppy drives.
The Tandy TRSdos couldn't handle 40 track or double sided, so I used Ldos, with was far better.

It was up in the loft for years, but I dumped it about 5 years ago.

In reply to a post by MadMan:

It was up in the loft for years, but I dumped it about 5 years ago.

Time speeding up like it did for your elders like myself?

It was actually 15 July 2006.

MadMan.
Out of interest, what was your estimated speed, pre-order ?

Thanks

Edited by deleted (Wed 10-Apr-13 08:59:16)

In reply to a post by MadMan:

I very soon got fed up with the speed of tapes.

I added the expansion box, & a couple of double sided, 40 track floppy drives.
The Tandy TRSdos couldn't handle 40 track or double sided, so I used Ldos, with was far better.

It was up in the loft for years, but I dumped it about 5 years ago.

Yes so did I so got a Seimens Tandy workalike; my friend supplied it. Dual 5.25"floppy disks. Think that was running Ldos.

I used to repair HDD's at customer premises. They were 15 inch drives (with I think 2 platters). We used to adjust the heads with an allen key and oscilloscope.

Physically Massive.. but only 5, yes FIVE MB in size.

Edited by deleted (Wed 10-Apr-13 10:48:53)

72mbs.

200 metres from cab, & copper all the way.

I think my floppy drives fell off the back of a lorry.
I didn't ask any questions, just paid the guy

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by MadMan:

It was up in the loft for years, but I dumped it about 5 years ago.

Time speeding up like it did for your elders like myself?

It was actually 15 July 2006.

Time goes mad when you retire. Left BT just under 4 years ago, but seems like it was just yesterday. At least the car no longer heads to the exchange when I go out.

15 July 2006 ???

We used to have a Honeywell unit with 15 inch platters, at work back in the 80's.

One day, one of the heads made contact with one of the platters. Oh boy, what a mess.

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15 July 2006 ???

It was the same day you trapped your finger when closing the loft trapdoor. Never believe you aren't being watched!