On 07/08/2014 04:28 PM, 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. No. It was paper tape. And on a PDP8 I had access to in '67, it had a high speed paper tape reader to load the 'OS' and FORTRAN system. In 4K of memory. The invention of the 8" diskette as the boot media for the 360 was a serious step forward. Also right around that time.