18 Apr
2014
18 Apr
'14
1:54 p.m.
On 04/17/2014 01:15 PM, SRCS Admin wrote:
Hi all,
On Apr 17, 2014, at 9:15 AM, "Jim MacKenzie" <jim at photojim.ca> wrote:
:-)
I know I was using a 2400 baud modem to my university during the summer of
'96, too - I'd graduated that year, but my account still worked until
September or so. Faster modems were still relatively expensive, and the
calls weren't free anyway, limiting the amount of time I wanted to spend
online for the few weeks of the year that I wasn't in reach of the campus.
cheers
Jules
As for modems that are capable of 300 bps calls,
as far as I know,
any dialup service should support 300 bps.
Not so, at least not exactly. Most commercial services that support 56k
dialup will have issues with low speeds; back when my university went to
56k in the late 90s, 2400 baud modems like the one I owned at the time
were not supported, and when I phoned to ask why, they were openly
incredulous that anyone would be using something slower than 14.4k
(remember, this was 1996).