On Thursday 02 January 2025 06:43:07 pm George at Clug wrote: > > Maybe as good as your phone...this was probably 30 years ago or more. > > LOL - I do recall using 1200 and 2400 baud modems. When 9600 baud modems > came out, it was like WOW. (ouch the memory cells hurt) >
Heh. I remember a 300 baud modem where you had to dial the number on a phone and then flip the switch on the modem when the other end answered. Whether you selected the answer or originate mode was a crap shoot, there were a lot of c64-based BBSs in the area at that time, and they were set up either way. And of course people would pick up the phone while you were connected... I opened a box the other day while looking for something else, and saw a US Robotics modem in there. Probably the one I used when I ran a BBS, topping out at 33600 or so. Too bad the drives in that machine didn't survive real long, I had a fair pile of interesting stuff on there. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
