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Greg Mueller
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1687
From: Port Gamble, WA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-01-2000 08:52 AM

Brad
Your new web location is real slick. I sure like not seeing those flashing, blinking, slow down-loading advertisements.
Good Job

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Greg Mueller
Amateur Astronomer, Machinist, Filmnut

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 08-01-2000 04:22 PM

Perhaps there should be a page with nothing but slow-loading banner ads just for those people who like to go down memory lane.

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Scott Norwood
Film God

Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-01-2000 05:53 PM

I was trying to convince Brad to put the server on the end of a 28.8 dialup PPP line and have lots of banner ads, but he convinced me that it might be better to have multiple T1 lines instead.

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 08-01-2000 06:51 PM

28.8???? Why the hell would you go with 28.8 when 9600 baud is good enough?

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Jeff Stricker
Master Film Handler

Posts: 481
From: Calumet, Mi USA
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 08-01-2000 06:58 PM

How about an old 45 baud AP teletype newswire? That's 60 WPM!! ;-)

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Trevor Bailey
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 113
From: Woonsocket, RI
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-01-2000 07:14 PM

Why not try a Commodore 64 with a 110 baud modem?????
I think I have one in the attic somewhere...

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 08-02-2000 05:56 AM

I'm still waiting for Film-Tech to lease a 45 Mbps T-3 line, so we can get those downloads of feature films and on-screen commercials (to help pay) for our digital cinema installations!

Here are two ISP examples I found on the internet.com boardwatch:
http://boardwatch.internet.com/isp/summer99/bb/terabitpg4.html
http://boardwatch.internet.com/isp/summer99/bb/qwestpg6.html

Data has a price. And your theatre needs to be near a fiber optic trunk line "backbone".

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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Eastman Kodak Company
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-02-2000 11:05 AM

Jeez, you guys should have seen how I used the internet 15 years ago...

It was an Apple ][e and a 300 baud modem.

I had to use "text capture" to get my first terminal program and turn it into an "exec file". It was Kermit-65. Then I used Kermit to DL another one in binary and I used that to DL one that used X-Modem.

Still, I had to know all of the AT commands by heart.

Today, I'm using ARA. It controls my modem for me. I hardly remember any commands anyore!

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Scott Norwood
Film God

Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-02-2000 11:20 AM

I vaguely remember reading about some guy who was trying to write web server software for the Apple II a few years ago... For what it's worth, we're still using some old hardware to help run film-tech: the primary DNS server (for the moment at least; it will change soon) is a 386-based PC (yes, a 386). There is also "boatanchor" which is a 10-year-old Sparcstation which is currently serving the manual control for the Apache web server, but which will eventually end up running backup DNS and mail service.

The main server that runs the web site and the forum, though, is an Intel PIII machine which is total overkill for a web server.

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 08-02-2000 12:53 PM

But Scott, you'll have to upgrade for those 45 Mbps feeds of 40-Gigabyte Film-Tech feature film files.

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John Walsh
Film God

Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 08-02-2000 03:44 PM

Randy, I almost got you beat. I used to be on "The Source" which was an information sevice like AOL about 20 years ago. Had a Dataproducts 150 baud acoustic-coupled modem. You could chat, make airline reservations, play Star-Trek, look at stock quotes, etc. The reason I say "almost" is it didn't connect to the internet. Does anyone remember the "TV Typewriter" terminal project in Radio-Electronics magazine?

I remember thinking; "150 baud at home. It can't get any better then this....!"

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-02-2000 04:55 PM

John I can remeber how advanced we felt when in my office we went out and bought a Comodore CBM and could bold type a letter

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-04-2000 10:52 AM

"We" didn't have internet, to speak of, unless you went to a college that had dial-up access. (Freshmen weren't allowed)

You'd have to pay for Compuserve or something called "PC Persuit". It was a "packet relay" of sorts. You'd dial in, then type in commands for BBS's and other computers in other cities. Then the "server" would open up a modem line in that city and call the remote machine for you. Now, THAT was the cat's whiskers, back in the day!

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John Wilson
Film God

Posts: 5438
From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 08-05-2000 03:06 AM

>>Why not try a Commodore 64 with a 110 baud modem?????
I think I have one in the attic somewhere...<<

I think everyone has one of them in the attic (and a spare to put out at yard sales...these are mandatory at yard sales).

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