Re: Modems & Xerox

2018-02-01 Thread Mike Loewen via cctalk
On Thu, 1 Feb 2018, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: I started accessing BBSs back in the early 70s with a 300 baud modem. From there it went to 1200; 2400; 9600; 28.8K and 56Kilobaud. All on dialup! Now at 5 Mbits/sec. here in Ontario. An American friend has 250Mb/s download. Yikes! The

Modems & Xerox

2018-02-01 Thread Murray McCullough via cctalk
I started accessing BBSs back in the early 70s with a 300 baud modem. >From there it went to 1200; 2400; 9600; 28.8K and 56Kilobaud. All on dialup! Now at 5 Mbits/sec. here in Ontario. An American friend has 250Mb/s download. Yikes! The classic computer era taught us patience didn’t it? BTW, one