Pedantic note: in this case baud and bits per second may be the same rate, but they technically denote different things. Baud denotes the symbol rate. If you’re

Pedantic note: in this case baud and bits per second may be the same rate, but they technically denote different things. Baud denotes the symbol rate. If you’re able to transmit more than one bit per symbol, then the baud and bps are different amounts. For example, 1200 bps modems transmitted 2 bits per symbol and thus were 600 baud. That said, the term “baud” was almost always misused as a synonym for bps. Speaking of modems, the coolest one ever made was the Novation Apple-CAT II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novation_CAT#The_Apple-CAT_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novation_CAT#The_Apple-CAT_II