Post #3118925
2025-03-27 21:31 UTC
@cascheranno@hachyderm.io @Mark62@cupoftea.social @Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk @TheLancashireman@hostux.social
110 Baud?... we'd get 1/2 baud if we were lucky... and that was my gran talking to my friend's gran over the "speaking telegraph" (once the operator had connected them) and talking in boops and beeps, and passing that on to me to type into the cardboard box we used as a computer!
[Apologies, clearly I've watched *that* Monty Python sketch too many times.]
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@mirth@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-03-28 04:27
@level98@mastodon.social @cascheranno@hachyderm.io @Mark62@cupoftea.social @Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk @TheLancashireman@hostux.social Pshh, beeps and boops? Why, when I was a lad we had to make due with boops only, and low pitched ones at that. Beeps interested the mice, the mice would run off with our bread, and it would be nothing but cabbage soup for supper!
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@rrb@infosec.exchange 2025-03-28 20:01
@level98@mastodon.social @cascheranno@hachyderm.io @Mark62@cupoftea.social @Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk @TheLancashireman@hostux.social 300 baud. X.25. 5 bit baudot. Paper tapes. I was (honestly) almost crushed to death by a cabinet full of punch cards...