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The connection speed varied from 1200 bits/s in the 80s to 56600 bits/s in the 90s As my username will attest to, 300 bps modems were very common in the 80s. I
by 300bps 5y ago
The connection speed varied from 1200 bits/s in the 80s to 56600 bits/s in the 90s
As my username will attest to, 300 bps modems were very common in the 80s. I got my first one in 1985.
- wglb 5y agoYes. My first modem was 110. 300 was exciting, and 1200 was outrageous.
- icedchai 5y agoMy first modem was 1200, back in 1987. I got a 2400 in 1989. I remember upgrading to a 9600 baud modem in 1991. It was insane.
- kerneloftruth 5y agoI took a LISP class in graduate school in the late 1980s, and dialed up to their VAX on a 300 baud modem from my commodore 64. Ah 40 character lines crawling across the TV/monitor. It felt powerful!