a new BBS...

[Tony Duell]

> 
> Tony Duell wrote:
> >> To be fair, if you are lucky enough to qualify for Verizon FIOS, you 
> >> won't ever want to use a modem.  30mb/s downstream to the house...
> >>     
> >
> > And presumably once you get a new surround-sound system you'll never want 
> > to listen to a vlaved radio again.

It's called sarcasm....

> > Once you get a modern Pentium (or whatever) PC, you'll never want to use 
> > an 8 bit micro, or a PDP11, or... again.
> >
> >   
> So just why you are this list ;)

Maybe because I don't have a modern PC.... Or maybe because I do prefer 
using PDP8s, PDP11s, PERQs, HP9000/200s, HP9830s, and so on...

My point is that you might want to use the older equipment/methods even 
if the more modern units are technically superio. A  modern PC will execute 
instructions faster than a PDP11, for any reasonable definitio of 
'instruction' -- in fact a modern PC running a PDP11 emulator is faster 
than a real PDP11. None-the-less I'll stick to my 11/45, 11/44, etc

And by exactly the same argument you might want to use a modem rather 
than whatever that broadband system was. Sure I'd not want to download a 
multi-megabyte file using a Modem 2B (300 baud, all discrete transistors, 
LC filters, etc). But such units are (at least to me) pleasant to restore 
and keep working.

-tony