I personally used a 'portable' 300-baud TI Silent 700 which printed on thermal paper and had an acoustic coupler on the side of it for those old phone handsets with the two circular cups. We dialed in and waited with great anticipation to see the next word coming from the remote machine. You also quickly learned what Ctrl-R was for due to the delete key didn't work very well once the typed character was printed on thermal paper. Yes, 300 and 1200 baud were slow and taught us something about patience. Original Message From: Bruce Ferrell Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 12:57 PM To: centos at centos.org Reply To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ? 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. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos