On Monday 27 March 2006 03:23, Mike McCarty wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 24 March 2006 10:53, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>>Guy Fraser wrote:
>>>>On Tue, 2006-21-03 at 17:04 -0500, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>...snip...
>>>>
>>>>>/Mike (In my day we had 1200 baud modems ... and we loved it! ;])
>>>>
>>>>Yah they were a big jump from 300 weren't they. ;^)
>>>
>>>Huh. When I saw my first "glass TTY" running at 300 Baud, I was
>>>ecstatic. The fastest equipment I'd used up to that point ran
>>>at 175 Baud, and not all of it was that fast.
>>
>> Oh, a youngster I see. I can remember when AP and UP both ran at 60
>> baud. That was of course real teletypes, not glass ones.
>
>Err, I *did* say that not all of them ran that fast. I don't
>recall 60 Baud, I do recall 75. And, yes, it was all mechanical.
>Are you sure about the 60?
I think the ones we had at KRCR in the late 70's were 60, might have
been 75 though. Teletype 15's IIRC. By the time I arrived at WDTV,
they were up to something over 100, Teletype 28's then. Either machine
was the electric equ to a common hockey puck as long as you gave the
motors a shot of 10w occasionally. Legibility of the output was
optional though as you well know. Bent hammers, cockeyed characters
were the rule of the day.
>Mike
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