On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Ken Kixmoeller/fh <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 29, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > >> How many of us had the 300 baud modem? > > In 1977 I had a 300 baud TI Silent 700 terminal with which to surf > the company "web." Quite an innovation with its built-in acoustic > coupler. I took it to prospects' offices. A real problem when they > had one of those modern-styled phones without the round mic and > speaker handsets. I had to hold it on the coupler while typing with > the other hand. What a revelation when the 1200 baud modems came out. > Speed! Power! ----------------------------------
Back then BELL owned all the phones so the round rotary were the standard. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Web and Windows Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
