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. I was dialing in from work to upload homework at 300 baud, around '84. When I got my first modem for my first real PC (we'll skip the CoCo), *I* had 1200 baud. *nyah* But between 1978, when I went back to college, and '81 or os, a year into my first programming job, I was on punch cards; then it was the shared three terminals in the hall. Originally, a 370-168 timeshare, then, after we won the lottery to get it nine months before most everyone, we had our 4300. And we had *real* line printers..... But I say there *ain't* no differmenints. You'se is gots your share, we had VM regions.....