Unknown: 1200 Baud? I was thinking 110, maybe 300. Were 1200 Baud acoustic couplers ever a thing? (A true telco geek would recognize the model from the low-res photo, but I'm not that geek.)
I had a friend in high school who had one of the really old-school acoustic couplers (in the wooden box, as I recall). My first modem was a U.S. Robotics 300 Baud under-phone unit, with RJ-11 passthrough. Lasted a few years before 1200 Baud became a thing. (One of these days, I should try to recover some files off of hard-sectored 8" floppies. And maybe some 800 BPI magtapes. Just out of historical interest, and as a reminder of things I was doing in the late 70s through mid 80s.)
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The sad part is it might not be too far from the truth.
If that image conjures auditory memories, your age is showing.
EW: :P
Because 1200 baud is nice and slow...
As long as it transmits faster than you can type, it will keep up fine.
Unknown: 1200 Baud? I was thinking 110, maybe 300. Were 1200 Baud acoustic couplers ever a thing?
(A true telco geek would recognize the model from the low-res photo, but I'm not that geek.)
300 baud as you listen to the squeal and hope it connects.
And in the era of watching the printer type across the greenbar paper and you knew the rest of the sentence before it was printed.
Not far from the truth... That is an Anderson Jacobson A211 300 baud coupler. I know, I had one back in the day. It actually worked!!!
I had a friend in high school who had one of the really old-school acoustic couplers (in the wooden box, as I recall).
My first modem was a U.S. Robotics 300 Baud under-phone unit, with RJ-11 passthrough. Lasted a few years before 1200 Baud became a thing.
(One of these days, I should try to recover some files off of hard-sectored 8" floppies. And maybe some 800 BPI magtapes. Just out of historical interest, and as a reminder of things I was doing in the late 70s through mid 80s.)
Shoot, I'm so old I remember being excited about 900 baud....
You guys are the best!
And ASM826, I had a boss once who used those exact words to me when he turned down my request for a 2400 baud modem ...
- Borepatch
I well remember my teen aged daughter's wails as I tied up the phone to connect to the PDP-11 at work.
Genius.
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