"Eisboch" wrote in message
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Gene Kearns wrote:


1200 baud, indeed. I was one of the poor kids on the block using the
300 baud acoustical modem.

Honey, don't pick up the phone, ok??? Oh, sh*t.... not again....


I had 1200 baud capability because I sprung for the latest and greatest
CPU - a brand new shiny I-286 running Geoworks. (The original "windows"
based software, before Microsoft came along)

Eisboch


1200 was fast!!!! While going to college, I maintained the computers in an
online banking data center in San Francisco. We had 110 BAUD leased lines
from as far away as Seattle, and Salt Lake City.