21 Sep
2004
21 Sep
'04
3:02 a.m.
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Luxury. When I was a boy, we had to transmit using smoke signals *and* a
shofar for parity bits. And if we lost carrier because of a rainstorm,
our father would beat us with his strap and dance on our grave.
At least you had parity! Half the time we didn't even know what byte we
were receiving.
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>> If I used hardware until it wore out I would
still be using
>> a 1200 baud modem! You have to upgrade some components because
>> the speed increase is
>> worth it, while still retaining the original machines ability to run
>> software it was intended to run.
>>
They have 1200 Baud Modems???? Why? I get along just fine with my acoustic
coupler (although it is getting hard to find a telephone shandset that
fits....