[TriLUG] Piece of History

[Tarus Balog]

On Feb 22, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Greg Brown wrote:

> Oh dag.. I forgot about 1200 baud.  I wasn't around for the 300 baud  
> days..
> at least I wasn't on-line during that time though I did connect with  
> one
> once to see how slow it was.  And dammit, it was SLOW.

I got a TRS-80 Model 1 for Christmas, 1978. The tape player used for  
data storage was at 150 baud, upgraded to 300 baud with "Level 2  
Basic". That's about my experience with anything that slow. I think I  
started using BBSes at 1200 baud.

-T

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