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> it would have taken over five minutes to transfer on our 2400 BPS modem. Any file around one megabyte would take about an hour to download.

A few years removed from this, I remember the agonizing hours trying to download a plug-in for Escape Velocity. The Star Wars plug-in was something like 2.4MB, and your best hope was to do it whenever no one else wanted the phone line.

parent sircastor 3 years ago

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