I could read the text faster than this modem could transmit it through my computer. Upgrading to a 1200 baud modem midway through university made surfing much more pleasant, though still nothing like we enjoy today.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
My First Modem
I could read the text faster than this modem could transmit it through my computer. Upgrading to a 1200 baud modem midway through university made surfing much more pleasant, though still nothing like we enjoy today.
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Good times! I was lucky enough to experience 300-baud for only a few months on a borrowed modem before I bought a 1200-baud modem. I well remember watching the text blaze by line-by-line.
Later I ran my own BBS on my Commodore-64 and then I even wrote a fully-functional BBS program in assembly-language on the Commodore-128.
Today I can't believe I ever had that much spare time. :)
For your legions of Bieber-aged younger readers I think it's worth pointing out exactly how different that is compared to now.
Typical broadband DSL service now is at least 1.5Mbps, which is approximately 1.5 million bits per second.
300 baud is essentially 300 bps.
So the slowest broadband available is still ... carry the 4 ... 5000 times faster. So that torrent that takes 1 or 2 hours to download right now at 1.5M will take 1500-3000 hours = 125-250 DAYS
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