[TriLUG] Piece of History

[Warren Weber]

On 22 Feb 2008 at 15:59, Tarus Balog 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
> 

OK, it isn't directly computer related, but I remember working in a 
comms center with some screaming 75 baud circuits (only the Navy, if 
I recall correctly -- the other services had upgraded to 150 baud!).

WRW

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