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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 02:07:34 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
> >Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> We had an acoustic coupler for awhile.  I think I could type faster than 
> >> it sent letters.

> >That's like 300 speed. ;)

> Depends on how fast you can type :-)
> 300 baud is probably amazingly fast to hunt-n-peck typists. 

I hunt and peck on smartphones since I have to have one hand hold it and while other hand type!


> And in the 80s, before GUIs were common and everything -even a lot of
> games - were character-based, 300 baud was probably usable, if a bit
> slow. Although I can't imagine using anything that pokey for
> downloading stuff; even 28,8kbps was tedious at those speeds (the
> original Doom Shareware took me over an hour to get, back in the day).
> Even looking at images was a chore; you'd queue up two or three and
> that would be it for the night ;-)

Yeah, but you had those evil line noises!!!!!!!!!!!!
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