Hmmm.... you forgot about the Smoke Signals... They would do almost 3 rpm........ (three rings per min !)
But one had to climb a tall location and collect the wood and light a fire... :) Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet& Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, Fl 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Helpdesk: 305 663 5518 option 2 Email: supp...@snappydsl.net On 7/13/2010 1:56 PM, Fred Goldstein wrote: > At 7/13/2010 01:42 PM, Bob West wrote: > >> Oh, really? So I've told you about my Zoom Telephonic Experience back in >> 1989 all over a darned 2400 baud modem? >> >> > > > >> I'm still pissed. >> >> Bob- >> > Y'all are too young. > > Back in 1965, when I first saw it, DTSS apparently had a network of > multidrop leased lines (voice-grade) using FDM multiplexors to > support a whole heap of 33ASR Teletypes at different schools. The > 33ASR was smokin' hot at 110 baud (we didn't need no stinkin' bps > yet). In the 1970s, IBM wired up whole banks that way, with > multidrop llnes at 2400 or maybe if you were lucky 9600 bps. > > We were well ahead of that in the early 1980s, when I was at DEC, > which was probably the most networked company in the world at the > time. Office buildings full of engineers had a few lightning-fast > 14,400 bps modems, with 56 kbps links between the computers in the > same room before Ethernet took over (around 1983). I had a > CompUServe account for a little while. It was $3/hour at 300 bps, > $9/hour at 1200 bps. Guess which one I used.. > > And my take-away is that at each step of the way, at each time, that > was seen as the cat's pajamas. And we got a lot done with it. > > > -- > Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com > ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ > +1 617 795 2701 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
