Download time facts

[OzWally]

If downloading a Red Dead Redemption II game 120GB on dial up Modem would take...
56,6 kbit/s 5113 hours.
or on 28,8 kbit/s 9942 hours.
And that would take over a year.

[maldorf]

I downloaded it in about 20 minutes.

[OzWally]

Yep same.
I just saying if we still have dial up and nothing else.
There's no way it can download 120GB without interruption 20 years ago.

[maldorf]

Originally posted by OzWally:

Yep same.
I just saying if we still have dial up and nothing else.
There's no way it can download 120GB without interruption 20 years ago.

That is insane, and I never thought about it before! There is another member here that plays in Poland and it took him 2 days to down load the game.

[JohnMars78]

Originally posted by OzWally:

There's no way it can download 120GB without interruption 20 years ago.

Especially if you're on a 40GB IDE HDD...

[OzWally]

Originally posted by JohnMars78:

Originally posted by OzWally:

There's no way it can download 120GB without interruption 20 years ago.

Especially if you're on a 40GB IDE HDD...

Lol yeah.

[firestorm]

Day's before the internet was available to most, Dial up BBS's ruled!
Ruled at being slow, that is (by today's standards)

Could take day's to complete a download of what fit on a small handful of floppy disc's!
I remember those day's well, even have fond memories of BBS's, as I ran one.

Started out with a 1,200 bit/s (1.2 kbit/s)
Finally shut the board down when I had a 56 kbit/s
Had a few stops with other speed's in between 1,200 bit/s and 56 kbit/s,
but not all speeds. (Hell my 56 kbit/s external modem was about $500, ouch)
For those going from 1,200 bit/s to 2,400 bit/s, they would be like "Wow is that fast"
Been there and done that, several times over. lol

40Gb IDE HDD's as JohnMars78 pointed out.
40Mb IDE HDD's were all the rage. As the majority had even smaller HDD's than 40Mb.

Had a friend that was a fellow sysop
(sysop = System Operator, a term I haven't heard in ages)
He bought a 1Gb HDD when they hit the market, that drive was over $1,000 bucks!
Which also required a fairly expensive drive controller for that drive to function,
as they first hit the market with a SCSI interface. (Small Computer Systems Interface)

Strange thing is, though similarities exist,
Only drive controller's that still remain's to this day is SCSI,
they are more commonly referred to as SAS now days.
Generally only found in the server space, but the controllers and drives will work on PC's.
Plug and play! Gotta love it!

Day's gone of the old style PNP which was
Plug it in, play with it again and again until you got it to work!
May sound strange, but the tinkering with stuff to get it to work is what I miss the most!

Memory lane!

[maldorf]

When I was in high school in the mid 80s we used to go on boards on our Apple IIe computers. My friend cracked games back then, and would share them on the boards. We once downloaded a game from California, which is clear across the country from where we lived, and it ended up costing more than if we had just bought the game in the store.lol. Long distance charges. My mother was very angry!
I think the modem was 800 baud? It had the cups where you lay the phone handset.

[OzWally]

Interesting.