Is it me or ?

[lorbay]

Is it me (my PC ) or is something to do with the Library the way the new format is. Before the library went for a make over I used to click on a topic and it would load right now, but with the new style it takes a few seconds. ( LOL I just thought back 20 years when you would wait 2 - 3 min for it to load,):biggrin::biggrin:
Great job BTW.

Lin.

 

[Smitty37]

20 years????

Is it me (my PC ) or is something to do with the Library the way the new format is. Before the library went for a make over I used to click on a topic and it would load right now, but with the new style it takes a few seconds. ( LOL I just thought back 20 years when you would wait 2 - 3 min for it to load,):biggrin::biggrin:
Great job BTW.

Lin.

Hmmm....1991, more like 2 or 3 hours to load if you had internet connection at all (which might take a half hour to connect). I might be off a little but I don't think 4800 baud modems were even generally available yet in '91. I know the computer I got in 91 only had a 2400 baud.

 

[TomW]

Is it me (my PC ) or is something to do with the Library the way the new format is. Before the library went for a make over I used to click on a topic and it would load right now, but with the new style it takes a few seconds. ( LOL I just thought back 20 years when you would wait 2 - 3 min for it to load,):biggrin::biggrin:
Great job BTW.

Lin.

I don't know all the ins and outs, but 90% of the library re-org was cut and paste so there's nothing to cause slowness. The docs and pictures were moved to new directory structure, so that might contribute. I don't know what happens when a document is in memory cache instead of disk, so it's possible that some docs could load slower, but I'm way over my head on this.

I do want to know if it gets worse, or is chronic!

Tom

 

[leestoresund]

Baud rate

I had a Compaq PC in 1982 that had at least a 4800 baud rate modem.
And I thought that was fast. It was, then.
But you could only get text files.

Lee

 

[lorbay]

I had a Compaq PC in 1982 that had at least a 4800 baud rate modem.
And I thought that was fast. It was, then.
But you could only get text files.

Lee

Thats right now I remember that was when I first got on the internet and yes it was all in text files. I wonder what a Jr Gent in true stone would look like in a text file. :tongue:

Lin.

 

[Smitty37]

Memory ????

I had a Compaq PC in 1982 that had at least a 4800 baud rate modem.
And I thought that was fast. It was, then.
But you could only get text files.

Lee

I think your memory fails you - the 1st Compaq (the compaq portable) was announced in November 1982 but not put on the market until 1983 and unless it had some specially developed device for handling text - it could not possibly have had higher than a 1200 baud modem - faster were just not available then. 2400 baud modems were becoming common by the late 1980s

 

[Smitty37]

True

I had a Compaq PC in 1982 that had at least a 4800 baud rate modem.
And I thought that was fast. It was, then.
But you could only get text files.

Lee

Thats right now I remember that was when I first got on the internet and yes it was all in text files. I wonder what a Jr Gent in true stone would look like in a text file. :tongue:

Lin.

Even until aroung 1994/95/96 sending pictures was not very common -- took too long. I tried the internet in the early 90s but it was too expensive - to use AOL I had to use a long distance dial-up and it just wasn't worth the cost since it was about 30 cents a minute and you could do very little in an hour. When local dialup became available I got on - late 1996.

 

[Geppetto]

My first ISP was Compuserve. Later, when I got a Mac, I switched to AppleLink. It was the only thing that worked with Apple computers at that time.