And starlink?

That's their legacy product.

2nd gen is 256 Kbps

2nd gen was 72kbps, never got to 256. Apple stepped in and got them to write the whole 2nd gen Duplex network off before it got that far.

Au Contraire, that bandwidth is definitely a joke.

Does it also make modem sounds??

They are serving different needs.

The spectrum and various other rights are probably worth more than the current kit.

Well that’s more than most people can get out of Leo today so it’s a start!

9600bps ought to be enough for anyone.

Thanks, Bill.

That's enough bandwidth to play Trade Wars and SRE so it's good enough for me.

Why no Legend of the Red Dragon? :(

What about LORD?

:-)

Tangent: SRE was very color-heavy and that led to some long ANSI sequences. From the recently decompiled source [1] you can see that I tried to pick shorter ANSI sequences when I could. In particular, going from color 0x0* to 0x1* we could save 1 byte, and going back to the default white on black we could save between 1 and 4 bytes. But if you're bandwidth limited there's also an option to turn off color entirely.

[1] https://github.com/joeshaw/sre-reconstructed/blob/main/src/s...