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Re: Penn Hills Firefighter assaulted by gang of youths



On 10/04/2010 9:15 PM, mleuck wrote:
> On Apr 10, 7:17 pm, Frank Olson
> <use_the_email_li...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> On 09/04/2010 7:37 AM, Robert L Bass wrote:
>>
>>> "Frank Olson" wrote:
>>
>>>> Robert L Bass wrote:
>>>>> Are they fiber yet?
>>
>>>> Yep! I'm routinely getting 30mbps download... Upload ain't so hot though.
>>
>>> They must be throttling the upload for some reason.
>>> If I recall correctly, we've been offered something
>>> like 50 megs on their business level service.
>>
>>> Remember when we were so excited to be able
>>> to watch the letters being "typed" across the
>>> screen at "breathtaking speeds" like 200 baud?
>>
>> Or downloading files over a 56K modem at a blazing 3.5 kbps???  Them
>> were the days...  :-)
>
> I recall downloading files from Compuserv on an Atari acoustic modem
> at a blazing 100 baud using X-Modem.


"War Games".  Love that movie...  "Care to play a game?"  Yeah...
Global thermonuclear war!  "How about a nice game of chess?"  No...
Let's play global thermonuclear war!  "OK."


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