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When I started doing BBSs, I used 300 baud at times. Unbearable. "Nobody ought to need more than 2400 baud" is what I felt with the upgrade! Until 14400 came al
by glimshe 1y ago
When I started doing BBSs, I used 300 baud at times. Unbearable. "Nobody ought to need more than 2400 baud" is what I felt with the upgrade! Until 14400 came along, of course...
- jandrese 1y agoIt got really bad when the BBS got all fancy and colorful with the ANSI graphics. Every character displayed might require 6 or 7 bytes down the wire to change the foreground and background color so your 2400 baud modem acted like a 300 baud modem or worse.