Comments for Oww! My eyeball... http://blog.une.edu.au/ome stuff from outta the tubes Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:23:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Telecom Viatel by Steve http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/2009/02/09/telecom-viatel/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Steve Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:23:46 +0000 http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/?p=89#comment-140 I’m an old Telecom Viatel subscriber. I used to access it with a Commodore 64. Microtex 666 is where I hung out. (And in their old Hotbox forum or whatever it was called).

]]> Comment on Telecom Viatel by Peter Deane http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/2009/02/09/telecom-viatel/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Peter Deane Mon, 23 Jul 2012 02:28:31 +0000 http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/?p=89#comment-117 Martin’s right, in Australia we used 1200/75 for Viatel – my first Bit Blitzer 123E used to do 300 Bell, 300 (Normal), 1200/75 and 1200. I bought it to do viatel in 1988. As it turned out, I never subscribed to Viatel because once I got the modem I used it to call that experimental sort of thing called a BBS, and had more fun for free than Telecom Viatel ever could offer at inflated prices.

Another big competitor for Viatel came with Teletext, which again was free, albeit only one-way. However at 75 bps UP from the user, Viatel wasn’t going to be all that interactive anyway. I can TYPE at probably half that speed!!

As for 1200 bps being fast enough, well, I used to be able to read an ASCII send at 1200 bps; when I got my 2400 modem, I couldn’t keep up reading at that speed – not that that was probably a bad thing :-)

]]> Comment on Telecom Viatel by Dermott Banana http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/2009/02/09/telecom-viatel/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Dermott Banana Tue, 24 May 2011 11:30:36 +0000 http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/?p=89#comment-39 Who would ever need more than 1200 baud???
:)

]]> Comment on Telecom Viatel by CorpAu http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/2009/02/09/telecom-viatel/comment-page-1/#comment-34 CorpAu Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:41:15 +0000 http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/?p=89#comment-34 Hi,

Just made reference to your article comparing maccas free wifi to viatel.
http://corpau.blogspot.com/2011/02/mcdonalds-wifi-speed.html

Regards.
CorpAu

]]> Comment on Telecom Viatel by witjuti http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/2009/02/09/telecom-viatel/comment-page-1/#comment-27 witjuti Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:57:39 +0000 http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/?p=89#comment-27 Martin : You are correct , that service did run at 1200/75 baud . I still have my old modem :-)
Cheers
Wit

]]> Comment on Telecom Viatel by Martin http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/2009/02/09/telecom-viatel/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Martin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:15:19 +0000 http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/?p=89#comment-26 Ah, Viatel. I was cleaning out my filing cabinet when I found some old copies of a newsletter called “Signet”. It was a publication for members of the service on Viatel called “Microtex 666″.

So, I decided to google it and see what mention or archives of the service were out there. I got two hits – one to a personal website of someone, and this.

Viatel, if I remeber correctly, ran on a unique modem standard of 1,200/75 bits/sec, not 300/75. Certainly, it did for me when I bought my first modem, a Nice Modem II, which ran at this speed. This was in June 1986. It cost me $499. At CPI we’re probably looking at close to $3k in today’s money.

It was an amazing experience for someone who never saw an online service before. But it was also expensive, something that Telecom, nowdays Telstra, seemed to excel at.

Thanks for the video. It brought back memories.

]]> Comment on Telecom Viatel by Hermit http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/2009/02/09/telecom-viatel/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Hermit Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:47:14 +0000 http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/?p=89#comment-25 Ahhh….those were the days!

Viatel was waaaaay cool.

]]> Comment on Telecom Viatel by Mark http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/2009/02/09/telecom-viatel/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Mark Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:47:28 +0000 http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/?p=89#comment-24 Haha, ignore me, I didn’t even notice the title of the Youtube clip itself.

]]> Comment on Telecom Viatel by Mark http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/2009/02/09/telecom-viatel/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Mark Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:47:04 +0000 http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/?p=89#comment-23 Is that the dad from Hey Dad??

]]> Comment on Telecom Viatel by Wednesday Morning News | MacTalk Australia http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/2009/02/09/telecom-viatel/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Wednesday Morning News | MacTalk Australia Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:28:16 +0000 http://blog.une.edu.au/ome/?p=89#comment-22 [...] bastards down at Seven are going to kill Austext stone dead. I’m still mourning the loss of Viatel, and now this? How am I supposed to keep up to date with the lotto numbers, race results and my [...]

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