Re: Good to be back
By: Mickey to Nightfox on Sun Mar 02 2025 06:47 pm
> My God, I used a Commodore 300 baud
> for
> ages and drove 125 miles to my
> closest
> KMart when the 1200 baud came out. I
> couldn't believe my luck. That was
> the
> LONGEST drive home I'd ever had.
> Couldn't wait to quadruple my
> on-line
> speed. :-)
I started with a 300 baud DIY acoustic
coupler in 1985 on the C64. And then,
I believe, I quickly got a Dataphon
S21-23d which could achieve an
incredible 1200 baud. However, it was
only half-duplex, meaning it could
receive at 1200 but send at only 75
baud. By the way, this was also the
BTX standard here in Germany
(Bildschirmtext - nobody really
needed it, but it was kind of cool).
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