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Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Semi-barely-related thing that popped into my brain on imagining the sound of this;

... the UNATCO theme from Deus Ex played by an 'orchestra' of floppy drives.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WhbBYLB90U0

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    On an even unrelateder note but tangentially semi-related to your comment, may I present:

    [the user] symphony for dot matrix printers

    https://vimeo.com/6868193

    (I actually have a t-shirt from this artist - saw them at mutek festival in Montreal in 2000something.

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