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Awesome. I remember doing things this way. With a 200 baud modem. Having to throw a card away because of a typo was somewhat inhibiting. Quite a contrast to
by stretchwithme 14y ago
Awesome. I remember doing things this way. With a 200 baud modem.
Having to throw a card away because of a typo was somewhat inhibiting.
Quite a contrast to discovering WordPerfect and realizing you can make all kinds of mistakes without such waste.
- brk 14y agoWhat used 200 baud? I remember 110, 300, and then 1200 was the next progression. I don't ever recall even hearing about a 200 baud modem.
- pjbrunet 14y agoI never heard of anything below 300, but I was born in '75 ;-) I never saw a BBS that accepted anything below 300.
- stretchwithme 14y agoYeah, it was probably 300. 17 was a long time ago. Some googling seems to indicate the V.21 modem could run at 200 or 300. But I have no idea.
- epo 14y agoI once had demigod access to Southampton University Computer Centre. The ops staff used to rip erroneous job cards in half and put them back in the deck for repunching. Clueless or lazy students sometimes repaired them with sellotape and resubmitted. The resulting bang as the card hit a high speed reader could be heard across the whole room and would take out the card reader for about 15 minutes while glue was cleaned off the innards. This time that user's whole job would be returned, guillotined in half and tipped into a manilla envelope, with a suggestion that next time they repunch error cards. Savvy users realised that you could repunch the correct code and use chad to fill in unwanted holes. Stacked in a deck these could last a surprisingly long time. (Yes, I'm that old.)