[GH85Carrera]

I remember "back in the good ol days" of my 300 Baud modem. It was not an auto-dial so I had to dial the phone number with my finger on the phone and then flip a switch on the side of the modem. It would auto-answer if the switch was in that mode, but it could not dial out.

I met a new guy at a computer club meeting back in 1982. He had just gotten his Commodore 64 and I had mine for a few weeks after upgrading from my Commodore Vic 20 in 1980 or so with cassette tape drive storage. The C-64 had the "huge" 170 Kilobyte storage capacity per floppy so I knew I had to go for that. Anyway I got his phone number and told him I would call at a certain time. He fired up his C-64 and I read him three or four lines of code to type in. That put his C-64 in a mode that I could send him a file, and he could save that file to his floppy. That was a Terminal program that he could then log onto the BBSs of the day and download other programs.

At 300 baud it took a LONG time to download a few KB file.

It still astonishes me to see the regular updates for files that are hundreds of MB now days. I had gone through at least 4 or 5 computer upgrades before I ever had one that had a 100 MB hard drive.