Just sort of throwing this “out there” for interest to the youngsters on here (ie anyone that’s ever NOT used an old-fashioned modem) but we’re incredibly lucky that MicroSoft waited until now for the SU11 update at nearly 80GB.
I’ve just calculated how long it would take to download just the update, let alone the whole kit and caboodle using my modem I had at the time FS first ever came out on my Radio Shack PC in the 1970s.
If my sums are right, it would have taken more than 3645 days or nearly 10 years.
I can remember when the first version came out, one of my buddies said, “hey, go buy this flight sim, and bring your Apple II+ (with a mighty 64K of memory)” out on alert with you and we’ll have some fun!". Only modem I had was a similar phone-cradle 300 baud modem that I don’t ever remember using with the sim!
Regards
My first online foray was with a 9600 baud modem. And that in itself could be pretty painful for downloads. And the horror if someone else in the house picked up a phone while you were in the middle of a download…
I had an Apple2E+, and Apple at the time had the technology leading top of the line Apple 1200 baud modem. When I went to a Compaq Deskpro, I still used my Apple 1200 baud on that.
I’m probably wrong, basic math is my kryptonite…but I don’t get the same answer as you, and I checked an online rate calculator that confirmed my answer. But, I’m too tired to keep going.
We calculated it would take us back then 5 years just to play all the DOOM maps we had and that was 2 minutes per map. Good ole dialup days where two phones in the house was a must.
I figured 8.45 years
80GB = 640gb , at 2400b/s = 266,666,666 sec’s = 4,444,444 min’s =74,074 hrs = 3,086 days =8.45 yrs. That assumes there’s no congestion or retransmissions!
