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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.)
by 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 agowell 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 agoWas 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!