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What an animal! I logged onto our BBS with a 300 baud, and could watch the characters appear on the green CRT one at a time. Such speed, such exhilaration.
by RocketOne 5y ago
What an animal! I logged onto our BBS with a 300 baud, and could watch the characters appear on the green CRT one at a time. Such speed, such exhilaration.
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoIf you picked up the phone while using 300 baud, you could make out individual keypresses.
- cronix 5y agoMy dad's modem was 75 baud, on the TRS80. You didn't plug a phone line directly into it. This was still in the era of rotary phones before push button blue tone ones. You put the handset of the phone (which had the microphone and speaker) into a cradle. It looked like this[1]. [1] https://opengear.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/acousticcoupler.jpg https://opengear.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/acousticcoup... Coincidentally, in the picture, that big box that is as big as an early desktop PC that the modem is sitting on, is a whopping 5 megabyte hard drive. State of the art for consumer hard drives at the time. I still have my dads in the garage. I vividly remember having to type "park" to park the hard drive heads before you turned it off, or it could corrupt everything on the drive when you turned it back on and the heads went back to the MBR.
- CTOSian 5y agoMine, like the most of them was not even an autodial-modem one! Endless "fun" trying to connect using a rotary-dial phone.