On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 11:10 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 7/8/2014 10:36 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > 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. > > actual Teletype KSR/ASR 33 kind of machines were 110 baud (10 cps, as > they used 2 stop bits) 110 baud definitely rings a bell. I saw my first Teletype in 1967/1968 at Scotland's National Engineering Laboratory (NEL). Chugging away, it seemed to be an exciting example of "real" computing - and it wasn't a bit like punched cards. -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. Centos, Exim, Apache, Libre Office. Linux is the future. Micro$oft is the past.