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Remember the good old days of 1200 baud modems?

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I remember when I got my USRobotics 16000 baud modem and I thought it was blazing fast!

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PAUL161

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That's funny! :highly_amused: PJ
 

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Or 300 baud!
 

dklawson

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300 baud... the audio/acoustic coupler. I remember them well.

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TR3driver

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Ah yes, the good old days that never were! Somewhere up in the attic, I've got an actual 110 baud modem, similar to this
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But I gave away the Morrow Decision computer that went with it. "Full up" 64K memory, 5Mb hard drive, and a 360K floppy. All state-of-the-art home computer at one time.
 

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I got y'all beat my first modem was a 28.8K modem, it really was blazing fast.
 

Gliderman8

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I wish I still had my little Sinclair computer.... I actually learned a lot from using it.
 

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When I first went to work for United Computing (national time sharing) and being the "new kid" I got the portable terminal, a Teletype model 33 with paper tape reader. It fit neatly in a large suitcase but the 300 baud acoustic coupler did not. I had to carry it separately. Man those were the days.
 

TR3driver

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When I first went to work for United Computing (national time sharing) and being the "new kid" I got the portable terminal, a Teletype model 33 with paper tape reader. It fit neatly in a large suitcase but the 300 baud acoustic coupler did not. I had to carry it separately. Man those were the days.
Wow, hard to imagine an ASR 33 being portable! The non-portable ones we had must've weighed close to 80 pounds each.

Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure they only ran at 10 cps. Were the later models faster?
 

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It was 10 cps. And having to lug that thing around to customer sites, it felt more like 180 pounds. I got lucky though. After only a couple of months they hired another "new guy" and I passed the "portable" to him. The suitcase did have wheels.
 
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