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ShadowMan said:
Hello guys. New here and waiting for a great year to come. Been a Saint fan since 68. Looking forward to some great conversations. GEAUX SAINTS!!
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Welcome aboard the BEST Saints fan website. We have several members who actually put on the pads, and/or coached.

The moderators here do a great job, and most fellow members are pretty decent (with maybe the exception of a couple of knuckleheads). :ezbill:

We also have ladies who are knowledgeable and opinionated. They too add lots of value to any dialogue.

Again: “Welcome aboard!” :9:

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Bill said:
Slow internet.
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His 2400 baud modem FINALLY got through!



But, then his wife picked up the land line...

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ETA:

Everything you wanted to know about baud rate but were afraid to ask (from a 1987 article):

"A mile marker in the evolution of modern telecommunications was reached in June, unheralded and almost unnoticed even by computer professionals. For the first time, the retail price of a high-speed modem [2400 baud] -- the device that allows computers to communicate over ordinary telephone lines -- has dropped to $100..." (NOTE: that's $245 in today's dollars.)

"Transmission speeds, called baud rates in honor of the French inventor J.M.E. Baudot, were limited to 300 baud until about seven years ago, when the Hayes company introduced a 1200-baud modem. At 300 baud, text that is being transferred is usually easy to follow, but most people have trouble reading at 1200 baud because the words scroll across the screen too quickly to follow.
Because of the poor quality of most of the telephone lines in North America at that time, 1200 baud was considered the highest possible transmission speed that computers could use over standard, "dial-up" lines.
Research into ways of packing more information into the tone patterns of modems led to 2400-baud versions about four years ago. This rate was then considered the new limit, although it was achieved at such an expense -- $1,000 or more for most of the first 2400-baud modems -- that consumers had little chance of moving up to the faster speed.
They had little incentive, too. Information services such as Compuserve could not operate at 2400 baud and only a few hobbyist bulletin boards upgraded their modems to the faster speed.
That has changed drastically today. Most nationwide information networks have switched to 2400 baud as an optional third baud rate, and thousands of bulletin boards offer all three rates, too. (Modems sold as 2400-baud units usually can be switched to 300 baud, and all of them can operate at 1200 baud also.)
The pace of change is being accelerated by more than technological improvements. Consumer expectations are rising, too, fueled by the realization that high-speed communications are at last within easy reach. While 1200 baud was satisfactory for years, as soon as 2400-baud modems appeared many computer users discovered that the higher rate made computer calls much faster -- and, in long-distance use, a lot cheaper, too.
The same phenomenon is beginning to show up in a heightened interest in 9600 baud. Where will it end? Some experts say 9600 is the highest baud rate that even good quality phone lines can support. But the researchers who pushed the highest baud rates from 300 to 1200 and then to 2400 and now to 9600 know that the experts were wrong before, and even now some of them are talking of 38,400-baud modems within a decade.
That would be a speed of nearly 4,000 characters a second. Not even Evelyn Wood could keep up with that."

Flashback: High speed modems (2400 baud) become affordable

Remember when 2400-baud modems cost a fortune? Step back in time to the moment they turned afforable.
www.technofileonline.com


Why you young whippersnappers just don't know how good you got it!

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ndcc said:
Welcome aboard the BEST Saints fan website. We have several members who actually put on the pads, and/or coached.

The moderators here do a great job, and most fellow members are pretty decent (with maybe the exception of a couple of knuckleheads). :ezbill:

We also have ladies who are knowledgeable and opinionated. They too add lots of value to any dialogue.

Again: “Welcome aboard!” :9:

:gosaints:
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I have been a fan since 1967. I watched the Archie Manning years on an RCA Victor Color TV. Brilliant crisp colors but, colors were sometimes in the wrong places.
 
Green-Ghost said:
I have been a fan since 1967. I watched the Archie Manning years on an RCA Victor Color TV. Brilliant crisp colors but, colors were sometimes in the wrong places.
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Ah, the evolution of the technology on which we watch the Saints.

Afterwards, we had the TV screen wars during commercials during games in the 1970s and '80s.....the Sony, the Magnavox, the Sylvania Superset, etc.
 

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