56K means?
 

I'm looking through some posts and keep seeing "56k die" or "56k" or some other variation of 56k. What does this mean?

Thanks,
Drew

probably before your time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56k

It's an ancient Internet term for dial up...wow..if you have to ask you are way to young.

56K = 56 Kilobytes per second = DIAL-UP
usually 56K die is where there are alot of high res photos that will slow down or "kill" dial-up internet

Thank you all for the help!

It's a throwback to 56K (AKA "dialup") modems/intrnet connectivity (even worse if you have a 1200 or 2400 baud modem which was before 56K connection speeds).

EVERYONE (except for some people who live out in the sticks) should really have at least a 64 KB(yte) connection at minimum.

what? I'm still on 28.8. Only takes me 5 minutes to load ASC home page. lol

Pfft, I get by fine on my AOL CD subscription.

I remember the days of grabbing shitloads of the AOL 3.5" floppys and wiping the shit on them because I was too cheap to go out and buy my own blank ones.

I used those discs as coasters.

Anyone remember 5 1/4" Floppy B?

I have a box of them and I cut them open at the top and use them to store CD's (if I don't have "proper" CD sleeves available).

then drilling the hole to convert from DD to HD to gain an extra 720KB of free disk space

I think I have MS DOS 3.0 on a stack of them somewhere.

I remember writing a baseball video game program on my brothers Commodore Vic 20

It was stored on a cassette tape.

Yeah I am old.

Haha same here!

Holy shit, I remember buying a 2400 internal and considering myself l33t.

lmfao