Roger Blake wrote:

On 2019-02-15, Buffalo wrote:
Wow, you had dial-up and not a crank phone? Nice to have the latest stuff!!

I never had a crank phone but did have a party line for a while.

We had a party line when I was 8 years old or so. A LONG time ago.

Still have my old 300-baud acoustic coupler stored in a closet somewhere.

I never had a modem that would go only 300 baud. I did have one that
could do either 300 or 1200 baud.

When I first started working, the terminals in our office were IBM
3270s. They were basically selectric typewriters, that communicated at
the IBM-standard speed of 127.5 cpm. When we got a few Omron CRTs that
could work at 300 cpm, that was a BIG deal. This is the early 1970s.

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Tim Slattery
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