Bazinga lyrics5/7/2023 ![]() ![]() There were no file sharing servers or protocols as such, so you could upload to someone running a BBS that usually included a path to an open folder, but it would still have to be done one computer at a time. ![]() ![]() Download speed was 7Kb/s and upload 2Kb/s, so uploading a low quality MP3 back would have taken 1.5 hours. Either way there was galvanic isolation between the line and the logic circuits, and he did the upload before blowing up. I'll tell you how dial-up worked in the 80': Either you had an acoustic coupler, where you placed the handset with its own speaker and microphone to transmit the beeps of data, or the modem had a proper phone plug and went into the wall. Michael won't see any of her movies which contain love scenes, because it grosses him out! I suppose you could say Edgar somehow was able to hijack all of the broadcasting frequencies (though it's not clear how), but then the radio DJs themselves wouldn't notice, and would believe their own music was actually playing.Īnd then of course, there's the matter of Edgar himself becoming sentient because champagne was spilled on his keyboard, but we won't even touch this one.īTW, Virginia Madsen, who was well cast in this role, has a brother named Michael who also acts, and mainly plays bad guys. Similarly, radio stations in 1984 were mostly manually fed the music they were playing (such as records or cassettes), so it would have been impossible to force all stations to play the same song. (Imagine if you could simply call people and electrocute them when they answer! Not good!) They are low voltage, and it doesn't matter what is connecting to them on the other end. Even 12-year-old me in 1984 knew that a lot of the technology depicted in this movie was laughable, but it was a cute movie.įor anyone wondering, it's impossible to send high voltage through telephone lines. ![]()
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