Gregory's Server300 baud putting in a strong showing as is 2400! Absolute classics!
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@kkarhan @drwho @sabi @BNetzA 2400 was the first "big step", below that just too easy to out-type or out-read. It's also the fastest I could get working over satellite phone relay from the arctic (2-4s latency), quite robust to bad lines or the like. Past that, everything of course became a bit quicker, but from 1200 -> 2400 on the BBS's for me felt like dial-up -> DSL.  @cowman @drwho @sabi Yeah, 2400bps/s is like the modern day lower limit for #narrowband: Even #iridium does that [and I guess that was your SATCOM link if you were above 82° parallel]...   @sabi I voted 300 as that was the first modem I owned myself, but the first one I used was a super cool 1200/75 that a friend had. 😎 |
@sabi 300bps is super simple and just 4x the tty speed of 75bps...
2400bps is the limit that works on shitty phone booths with acoustic couplers...