I remember geeking out over the 1200 baud in the early '80s. Since I'm stuck with dial-up at home, I'm pretty happy with a 40K "connection speed." But then I come to work and lament that fact.....
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 07:17 -0500, Jack Coats wrote: > Yes, 110Baud for 10 characters per second was more normal. > > My first home modem was a surplus accoustic coupler from a TI Silent > 700 > that I riged up to work with my Altair 8800. ... Blazing speed. Later > I graduated > to a DC Hayes modem board kit When Dennis was selling them himself > from > Atlanta, but for the price, the acoustic coupler worked well. > > IHS ... Jack > > > > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Chris Faulkner > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://www.snotr.com/video/2706 > > the good ole days... :) > > > > > I read this yesterday and it blew my socks off. 300 Baud was > a VERY fast connection speed in those days. > > Andy > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
