At 09:27 PM 3/29/99 -0800, Sellam wrote: Bzzzt! And thanks for playing. Actually this would be a reasonably good trivia question. The term 'baud' is used to indicate signalling states, the term 'bits' is used to represent transmitted data. The ASR-33 transmits 110 signaling states (bauds) per second, out of every 11 one is a start bit, eight are data bits, and two are stop bits, thus the number of bits per second is actually 8/11 * 110 or 80 bits per second. When you use 8 bits to represent a character this is 10 characters per second. --Chuck