[TriLUG] Piece of History

[Craig Taylor]

How's this one?

Connecting to the NC-State VAX with a Vic-20 and a 300 baud modem. The
cool thing however was the ability to overclock the modem to 450 baud
and still have it work. 

Ah, those were the days... 


On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 17:15 -0500, Justis Peters wrote:
> 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)
> >   
> Greg and Tarus,
> 
> Good to see your names!  It's been too long since we've talked.  I hope 
> you're both doing well.
> 
> If the two of you are going to play jacks and queens when I have a king 
> in my hand, I've got to put my cards on the table.  My first modem was 
> 300 baud and it plugged into the joystick port on my Atari 800.  When I 
> later moved to 1200 baud, it was quite refreshing.
> 
> Does anybody have the ace?  Acoustic coupler with less than 300 baud 
> wins the round.  Unless there's a trump card or a joker I've never heard of.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Justis