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		tabtab on Dec 31, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nasa's New Horizons: Final flyby commands given to... I can tell you stories about the days of 300 baud dial-up modems.

pmcjones on Jan 1, 2019 | [–]

And 110 baud before that (Model 33 Teletype).

jcims on Dec 31, 2018 | [–]

When 256 colors was good enough...

garmaine on Jan 1, 2019 | [–]

For high res displays. The rest of us got by on 16 colors.

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