[TriLUG] Piece of History

Greg Brown gwbrown1 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 16:16:58 EST 2008


Oh dag.. I forgot about 1200 baud.  I wasn't around for the 300 baud days..
at least I wasn't on-line during that time though I did connect with one
once to see how slow it was.  And dammit, it was SLOW.

Greg


On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Tarus Balog <tarus at opennms.org> wrote:

>
> On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Greg Brown wrote:
>
> > I remember going from 2400 baud to 9600 then 14.4k.. wow, brings
> > back some
>




>
> > memories of my IBM ISP and surfing the net with OS/2 back in the day.
>
> Bah. I remember that when I went from 1200 baud to 2400 baud it was
> the first time I couldn't read BBS posts as fast as they were printed.
>
> (grin)
>
> -T
>
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