Post #3118922
2025-03-27 16:47 UTC
Replies (7)
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@Mark62@cupoftea.social 2025-03-27 16:58
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk @TheLancashireman@hostux.social 2800 baud, you speed freak 1200\75 BBC Micro Prestel was my first online experience.
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@shawnhooper@fosstodon.org 2025-03-27 17:11
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk @TheLancashireman@hostux.social I started at 300 baud. I can still picture the Tandy/Radio Shack modem.
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@vertigo@hackers.town 2025-03-27 19:30
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk @TheLancashireman@hostux.social Honestly, I was jealous you had a Gateway 3000. All I had access to was a Gateway 2000. 😆
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@virbonus@sueden.social 2025-03-27 19:42
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk @TheLancashireman@hostux.social You mean 2400? But I actually used an acoustic coupler at 300 bps. I know the reason for line oriented editors.
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@max@toet.dnzm.nl 2025-03-27 20:43
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk @TheLancashireman@hostux.social our first one was a Teletron modem hooked up to the Commodore 64, doing 300 baud, or 1200/75 (handy for downloading!). Later, on my first Mac, I spent a couple of hours fetching Netscape 2.0 over a 2400 modem. Good times.
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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org 2025-03-27 22:39
@TheLancashireman@hostux.social @Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk being in continental europe and a little younger, I did have a 56k modem but the line wouldn’t sync more than about 21 kbps anyway (by the time I managed to get permission to use it to dial up), and the laptop I used needed me to lower the serial port speed anyway to keep up… (my desktop was faster but I had just used it to compile my own GNU/Linux distro and the 80386 laptop I had lying around was the first target to run it on)
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@blotosmetek@circumstances.run 2026-03-28 11:21
@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk @TheLancashireman@hostux.social 2800? Either he meant 28800 or 2400. Yes, I remember 2400 baud modems.