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Remember the good old days of 1200 baud modems?
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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
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.
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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Well, if we REALLY want to go back in the time machine, the NORAD SAGE system I worked on used 75 Baud teletypes!
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I never had the pleasure of owning such an antique! LOL My first modem was a dial up 1200 Baud. A real screamer by comparison I guess.
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That's more like a square-body MG.
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I got y'all beat my first modem was a 28.8K modem, it really was blazing fast.
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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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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?
About 12 maybe 15 years ago my daughter had to wear a heart monitor for a month. Every morning she had to send in the info using a device that looked exactly like that. I was amazed that they were still using that technology in the early 2000s
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