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Originally Posted by id10t
Had to give a history lesson in my Linux class last night on rotary phones, acoustic coupler modems, and dialing into BBSes at 900 baud
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900? When I started in computers (1876), we had two speeds. 110 and 300! And that was set by the phone company. I don't think we advanced to 1200 until the early 1980's. My laptop in 1988 (Toshiba 1200 HD) I had to install a modem/memory card. Boosted RAM to 2MB (640K usable, the rest was for RAM drives) and had a 1200 Baud modem.
Up to 1982, ANYTHING attached to a phone line was AT&T equipment. Acoustic couplers got around it...