Always Learning wrote:
>
> 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.
'Ey! What'cho got 'gainst punch cards?
mark "except the card punch in the lab that punched *other* than
what it printed, that once...."