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My first modem looked like the one in the picture: a blazing 300 baud, or 0.0003 megabits per second. And you had to smack the handset against a desk every now and then to prevent the phone's carbon microphone from degrading from the steady carrier tone.
It all seemed to high tech, at the time. Yikes.
Oops. Obviously I'm ancient. I *upgraded* to 300 baud from 150, but it wasn't until I got 1200 that I thought it was fast...
ReplyDeleteAh, the good old acoustic coupler. Whenever I see one of those, the first thing I think of is the movie WarGames - I'm slightly too young to have actually used one of them myself.
ReplyDelete(btw, I've been meaning to talk about this for some time, but your comment page doesn't let you use keys like Ctrl-V to paste, or the arrow keys to move around in the comment box. It's very irritating, but I don't know if it's to do with your blog or Blogspot in general. Do you know what's up with that?)
Blogspot is rather primitive. I rarely post here directly anymore: the stuff that appears here is echoed from http://langa.posterous.com
ReplyDeletePosterous is much slicker, and allows normal keyboard shortcuts in the reply boxes.
Sorry for the inconvenience--- only Google controld the Blogger software.