On 7/8/2014 11:13 AM, Richard Pierce wrote: > I personally used a 'portable' 300-baud TI Silent 700 which printed on > thermal paper and had an acoustic coupler on the side of it for those old > phone handsets with the two circular cups. We dialed in and waited with great > anticipation to see the next word coming from the remote machine. You also > quickly learned what Ctrl-R was for due to the delete key didn't work very > well‎ once the typed character was printed on thermal paper. Yes, 300 and > 1200 baud were slow and taught us something about patience.
in college (early 1970s) my roommate had a GE Terminet 1200 which was a 120cps printer with plain paper and a ribbon, and an integral acoustic coupler. this was lightyears--er--12X faster than the defacto Teletype stuff most folks had. But, until circa 1980, most of my actual work was with punchcards and/or (later) direct connect VDTs at 9600 baud. I do still have a USR Courier 2400E somewhere in storage, which was a 2400 baud modem that had data compression and could send plain ascii at about 9600 bps, along with a couple Racal Vadic 9600-ish modems. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
