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

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

Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:

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

That's like 300 speed. ;)

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

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 ;-)