On 07/08/2014 10:36 AM, Always Learning wrote: > On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 13:19 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > >> ROTFLMAO! And can you explain the difference between "cloud" and >> "time-sharing on a mainframe"? > 75 baud on a TTY (clank, clank, clank, ding, thud as the printer head > returned to the beginning of the line) and an amazingly fast speed of > 300 baud on the up-market Terminet (? spelling). > > Perhaps the speeds were 300 and 1,200 baud? It was a long time ago. > > Those were the days. > 110 and 300 Bps. (model 35 and 33) 75 and 50 Baud was 5 level code (model 15, 19, 28 and 32) There was never a 1200 Bps gearset I'm an ex teletype mechanic.... Springs, levers, cams and electromagnets. That was my door to telecom and ultimately to computers.