Re: Dial-up modems (Re: FREE GAME: Spirit of the Mouse)

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 02:07:34 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:

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We had an acoustic coupler for awhile.  I think I could type faster than
it sent letters.

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That's like 300 speed. ;)

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Depends on how fast you can type :-)
300 baud is probably amazingly fast to hunt-n-peck typists.

Don't be too sure, I hunt and peck at a quite fast rate (never learned
to touch type and the allowable mistakes in touch typing, just plain DO
NOT WORK when programming and it HAS TO BE RIGHT.

I am however not one of those two-fingered hunt and peck types like you
see in old police dramas, glacially typing up their reports on a
typewriter or computer.

And in the 80s, before GUIs were common and everything -even a lot of
games - were character-based, 300 baud was probably usable, if a bit
slow. Although I can't imagine using anything that pokey for
downloading stuff; even 28,8kbps was tedious at those speeds (the
original Doom Shareware took me over an hour to get, back in the day).
Even looking at images was a chore; you'd queue up two or three and
that would be it for the night ;-)

Never used 300 baud, but first modem was a Zoltrix 2400, soon upgraded
to a USR 14k4.

I think I still have a ISA 56k modem around here somewhere, but of
course no landline.

Xocyll