532: The Meat Part of Multitasking
Accidental Tech Podcast
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The Slowness of a 2400 Mod Modem
When MP3's were starting to become a thing was right at the end of me having that computer my so my first two empty years I had on that four eighty six computer with a 400 mega hard drive. To add like a three megabyte MP3 was a big deal for 400 megabyte hard drive and a four eighty six can't play MP3's in real time. It's too slow to decode them. So I had to actually play them at like 22 kilohertz. And if I heard spook, if I heard that call waiting beep come in, I would have to flip the modem off so it would hang up instantly disconnect. But yeah, that was like
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