> My mind races thinking about the ways to configure a data stream to lose so much speed. Not quite the same peripheral, but the 1541 disk drive was designed t

> My mind races thinking about the ways to configure a data stream to lose so much speed. Not quite the same peripheral, but the 1541 disk drive was designed to be backwards compatible with older Commodore models. As a result, it had a very low read and write speed compared to other computer models. I wonder if it was a similar case for the modem.