• Rhaedas
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    271 year ago

    9600? Luxury.

    I started with 300 baud, where you could read faster than the letters would show up. And we liked it that way! (not really lol)

    • @[email protected]
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      161 year ago

      Oh yeah, tough guy? I wrote telex over an unstable 75 baud uhf-SATCOM link running on a fleetsat from the 70’s. Pretty crappy and I didn’t like it, since I had to usually send it several times ;-)

    • @surewhynotlem
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      81 year ago

      You guys are spoiled. My modem was so slow that, when I wanted to see boobs I had to grow my own.

    • @rhacer
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      81 year ago

      I wrote my first code at the end of a 300baud accoustic coupled modem. I don’t know if the “not really” was modifying the “liked it that way” or the entire post.

    • @whynotzoidberg
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      51 year ago

      300 baud? Psh, my dick is way bigger.

      Wait, sorry, forgot if we were discussing or swinging it around.

        • @whynotzoidberg
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          1 year ago

          Dude you gotta let your fiber go

          BPS is the best in the business

          PS I got a dick like Jesus

    • umbraroze
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      31 year ago

      I once managed to borrow a 300 bps modem for my Commodore 64, and showed some of the local online services to my friend who owned the modem. (It was actually super fancy because I managed to use a terminal program that showed 80 mildly blurry characters per line.) By that time our family had a PC with a 2400 bps modem.