Mine was some Japanese song about fast cars that I grabbed from a warez list that had mp3 servers on it. I had no idea what mp3s were so I decided to grab one and download it on a blazing fast 14.4 modem. I logged into the FTP server and it said I could have any file I wanted as long as I removed it after 24 hours had passed. I was intrigued. I looked up what the filetype was on the internet and discovered that this strange little file was a song! I don't remember what player it was but I do remember the funny little tune.. it was probably mid 90's..the rest is history - since then I have consumed countless MBs of bandwidth and countless hours searching/downloading mp3s/oggs
Man I totally had one of those too! (the real thing, this is not meant as a humourous post). It came as a dumb terminal hooked up to the large (almost the size of a Sun Enterprise 450) WANG 'base unit.' I could never get the thing to boot properly. It sounded like a large air conditioner (or two) when it started up and had dual floppies. Quite the piece of hardware... Im thinking it weighed somewhere in the neighbourhood of 90lbs.. probably about 45-60lbs for the terminal.
Up until it died a couple of months ago, I (and friends) still used my monitor from 1980 that was used with the Coleco Vision A.D.A.M. It was a CanadianTire brand something -or-other that doubled as a TV. It had a 13 channel manual tuner (you turn the knobs for each button and pick a total of 13 channels that you would like preset on 'hotkeys' on the front of the unit - no remote of course.)
Wow, now I *know* its been a long time since I've been a FreeBSD user. The last time I downloaded the OS, it came in 230k chunks (nice for that 14.4 modem) and was version 2.5. Maybe i'll give the 5.2 version a go, I'm sure there has been a few improvements;)
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Mine was some Japanese song about fast cars that I grabbed from a warez list that had mp3 servers on it. I had no idea what mp3s were so I decided to grab one and download it on a blazing fast 14.4 modem. I logged into the FTP server and it said I could have any file I wanted as long as I removed it after 24 hours had passed. I was intrigued. I looked up what the filetype was on the internet and discovered that this strange little file was a song! I don't remember what player it was but I do remember the funny little tune.. it was probably mid 90's..the rest is history - since then I have consumed countless MBs of bandwidth and countless hours searching/downloading mp3s/oggs
Man I totally had one of those too! (the real thing, this is not meant as a humourous post). It came as a dumb terminal hooked up to the large (almost the size of a Sun Enterprise 450) WANG 'base unit.' I could never get the thing to boot properly. It sounded like a large air conditioner (or two) when it started up and had dual floppies. Quite the piece of hardware... Im thinking it weighed somewhere in the neighbourhood of 90lbs.. probably about 45-60lbs for the terminal.
Up until it died a couple of months ago, I (and friends) still used my monitor from 1980 that was used with the Coleco Vision A.D.A.M. It was a CanadianTire brand something -or-other that doubled as a TV. It had a 13 channel manual tuner (you turn the knobs for each button and pick a total of 13 channels that you would like preset on 'hotkeys' on the front of the unit - no remote of course.)
Wow, now I *know* its been a long time since I've been a FreeBSD user. The last time I downloaded the OS, it came in 230k chunks (nice for that 14.4 modem) and was version 2.5. Maybe i'll give the 5.2 version a go, I'm sure there has been a few improvements ;)