"...matters retrocomputery and technical..."
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| Aladdin_Sane Jul 16, 2007 10:29 PM EDT |
That was a fun article. Ooo, fuzzy green screen. Pristine Apple ][e with dual floppy drives! I tried 'telnet latenightbbs.com 6001' on Debian Sid, it works fine. "That's life at 9600 bps, baby. Or Baud if you're old sk00l. And wrong." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baud "A typical 2400-bit/s modem actually transmits at 600 baud (600 symbol/s), where each quadrature amplitude modulation symbol carries four bits of information." Pet peeve from the old days. |
| Sander_Marechal Jul 16, 2007 11:07 PM EDT |
Quoting:I tried 'telnet latenightbbs.com 6001' on Debian Sid, it works fine. Yeah, did that too. It brought back quite some memories seeing text not appear near-instantaneously :-) |
| tuxchick Jul 17, 2007 7:56 AM EDT |
Oh cool, I heart oldtimers from the days of Real Bauds! I thought that 2400 was the upper limit of Real Bauds, and anything over that was just stuffing more bits per baud...? |
| Aladdin_Sane Jul 17, 2007 9:38 AM EDT |
>>I thought that 2400 was the upper limit of Real Bauds, and anything over that was just stuffing more bits per baud...? Basically, yes. At least to my recollection with respect to MOdulators/DEModulators. As I recall, a 2400 bps MODEM ran at 600 baud, and the 9600 and 14.4k bps MODEMs both ran at 2400 baud. Quoting myself: "Yes, Marvin the Martian was involved in the development of the device: In fact I am sure that he was Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. Employee #1." |
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