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> I've used links with modems rocking 1200 bps Yo, 300 baud, checking in. Do I hear 110? +++ATH0
by quesera 9mo ago
> I've used links with modems rocking 1200 bps
Yo, 300 baud, checking in.
Do I hear 110?
+++ATH0
- robflynn 9mo agoAh, the good old days. I remember dialing up local BBSes with QMODEM. AT&C1&D2S36=7DT*70,,,5551212
- codazoda 9mo agoPoiZoN BBS Sysop chiming in. I ran the BBS on a free phone line I found in my childhood bedroom. I alerted the phone company and a tech spent a day trying to untangle it, but gave up at the end of his shift. He even stopped by to tell me it wouldn’t be fixed. I didn’t know the phone number, so I bought a Caller ID box, hooked it to my home line, and phoned home. It wasn’t long before every BBS in town had a listing for it.
- nwellinghoff 9mo agoMan that tech was cool and did you a solid.
- bigfatkitten 9mo agoMany techs went to work for the phone companies for a reason.
- quesera 9mo agoThat's awesome. I had to wait til I was old enough to get a phone line in my own name before running a BBS. And also til I had a modem that would auto-answer, which was not a given back then! But I confess my first question for a working but unassigned phone line would be: who gets the bill for long distance calls? I had access to no-cost long distance calling through other administrative oversights, but they were a bit more effort to maintain! :)
- guiambros 9mo agoHa, same! On a TRS-80 Color, nonetheless. But I think I used four times, because no one else in the country had a BBS at the time (small city in Latin America). It took a couple of years until it would catch on, and by then 1200 and 2400 bps were already the norm - thankfully!
- ochrist 9mo agoMy first modem (from 1987) was 300 baud, but it could be used in a split mode called 75/1200. Before that I used 50 baud systems in the military as well as civil telex systems.
- quesera 9mo agoMine was 300 baud, probably 1982? And I felt privileged because the configuration for my TI-99/4A Terminal Emulator (which I believe was called Terminal Emulator) had options for 110 or 300 baud, and I felt lucky to be able to use the "fast" one. :) My first modem (you always remember your first) had no carrier detection (and no Hayes commands, and no speaker...), so I would dial the number manually, then flip a switch when I heard the remote end pick up and send carrier to get the synchronization started. It was incredibly exciting at the time.