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Anybody else here remember trashing their handset-cradle 300 baud Kansas City modem for one of them there shiny new 1200 baud Hayes machines? And now they tell
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Anybody else here remember trashing their handset-cradle 300 baud Kansas City modem for one of them there shiny new 1200 baud Hayes machines? And now they tell me that ten thousand or so times faster ain't enough?
- RevRal 17y agoI remember trashing a parallel port (or was it a serial port....) trying to get a modem to work, and having to replace with a new card. Kids these days with their whiffy and Ethernet ports.
- oconnore 17y ago1200 baud would be just fine if I could read the news without an unwanted megabyte of bloat per page (even worse with pagination).
- cabalamat 17y ago300 baud??? You had it lucky, I used to use a 110 baud teletype.
- Vivtek 17y agoWe would have killed for 110 baud. We had a three baud modem and had to carry all the 1 bits by hand.
- DanielBMarkham 17y ago3 baud? Luxury. We had 1 baud and we kept it in a box in the middle of the road. Every day we'd get up, clean the box, read the bit, and then go to the factory to work for 20 hours. And when we got home every night our father would cut us with a knife. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo Merry Christmas!
- cabalamat 17y agoAnd when you tell that to the young people today, they don't believe you!
- jsz0 17y agoThe content/applications for network usage in those days weren't too bad at 300 or 1200 baud. Mostly text or small binaries. Lots of single user stuff too. Today it's not uncommon for a family to have multiple computers and other devices that can access the Internet. If everyone is interested in doing streaming video I'd say 10-15Mbit/sec is a realistic minimum.
- joezydeco 17y agoDo you remember how long it took to move a compressed Apple ][ disk over the lines with ASCII Express? Hours! And that disk was only 140K!