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I remember when I upgraded to a 14.4k modem and boy was I pleased after dialing with a 9600 baud for years.

keithnz 10y ago
I remember 300 baud connections! :) because the "fast" 2400 ones were all in use. Nothing quite like watching characters being drawn at typing speed :) least on IRC it wasn't too bad unless it was a busy channel
- lozf 10y ago
  Brendan Gregg's "baud.pl" script[0] is great for re-living those nostalgic moments. e.g. find ~ | baud.pl -300 [0]: http://www.brendangregg.com/Specials/baud http://www.brendangregg.com/Specials/baud
peterclary 10y ago
Luxury. I started out on 1200/75. I used to dream of 2400, let alone 9600! ('ad to lick code clean wi' tongue, etc. etc.)
- SubiculumCode 10y ago
  well I first wrote 2700 baud, and then I had a sudden work I was remembering wrong. I honestly think I started at 2700 baud as a 10-year-old.
- grkvlt 10y ago
  Was that PRESTEL, maybe? Did you ever take advantage of the ability to have the modem train as the server side of a 1200/75 connection? That way, you could upload at the blistering speed of 1200 baud, with the downside of trying to navigate PRESTEL or its ilk at the staggeringly slow (worse than the original IBM teletypes) speed of 75 baud! Good times... And, after leaving University, the only Internet connection I could use (I believe Demon Internet in the UK was starting up, so dial-up was beginning to appear, but the faster University connections were for students only) was their free 2400 baud connection to the X.25 PAD (translatable to TCP/IP through SLIP once a shell connection established) and I resigned myself to this being the only Internet access I would ever have without a return to academia!
vic-traill 10y ago
I'll pitch in here with a 300 bps acoustic coupler claim, back when bps == baud [0]. Bought the coupler and a Volker Craig VT100 terminal (complete with still-attached security chain) for $50 CAN from an Admin at my university who had no doubt pinched it from his employer. This allowed me to dial in and work on programming assignments at the last hour, when the labs were full but open dial-up ports always available. Don't know when I got rid of the coupler - I felt like a high-tech dude dialing the number, listening for the carrier and then placing the receiver in the cups. [0]http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-23.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-23.html

I remember 300 baud connections! :) because the "fast" 2400 ones were all in use. Nothing quite like watching characters being drawn at typing speed :) least on IRC it wasn't too bad unless it was a busy channel

lozf 10y ago
Brendan Gregg's "baud.pl" script[0] is great for re-living those nostalgic moments. e.g. find ~ | baud.pl -300 [0]: http://www.brendangregg.com/Specials/baud http://www.brendangregg.com/Specials/baud

peterclary 10y ago

Luxury. I started out on 1200/75. I used to dream of 2400, let alone 9600! ('ad to lick code clean wi' tongue, etc. etc.)

SubiculumCode 10y ago
well I first wrote 2700 baud, and then I had a sudden work I was remembering wrong. I honestly think I started at 2700 baud as a 10-year-old.
grkvlt 10y ago
Was that PRESTEL, maybe? Did you ever take advantage of the ability to have the modem train as the server side of a 1200/75 connection? That way, you could upload at the blistering speed of 1200 baud, with the downside of trying to navigate PRESTEL or its ilk at the staggeringly slow (worse than the original IBM teletypes) speed of 75 baud! Good times... And, after leaving University, the only Internet connection I could use (I believe Demon Internet in the UK was starting up, so dial-up was beginning to appear, but the faster University connections were for students only) was their free 2400 baud connection to the X.25 PAD (translatable to TCP/IP through SLIP once a shell connection established) and I resigned myself to this being the only Internet access I would ever have without a return to academia!

vic-traill 10y ago

I'll pitch in here with a 300 bps acoustic coupler claim, back when bps == baud [0]. Bought the coupler and a Volker Craig VT100 terminal (complete with still-attached security chain) for $50 CAN from an Admin at my university who had no doubt pinched it from his employer. This allowed me to dial in and work on programming assignments at the last hour, when the labs were full but open dial-up ports always available. Don't know when I got rid of the coupler - I felt like a high-tech dude dialing the number, listening for the carrier and then placing the receiver in the cups. [0]http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-23.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-23.html