BBSing at 300 Bits per Second reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ntack9933 · 2022-10-03 00:57 My first ever baud rate ---------------------------------------------------------------------- myke113 · 2022-10-03 01:45 A friend's dad had 110 baud acoustic couplers.. lol I remember 300 baud, 1200 baud, 2400, 9600, 14.4K, 16.8K, 28.8K, 33.6K, 56K (which really maxed out at 53K because of FCC limitations), then DSL and cable left those speeds in the dust... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Practical_Cartoonist · 2022-10-03 04:49 I do limit my throughput a lot (just using syncterm, not a real 1983 modem). For some door games and ANSI scrollers, slowing down is practically a necessity, I think. Never gone as low as 300, though. 1200, 2400 or 9600 are common ones for me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dmine45 · 2022-10-03 08:50 I was lucky that my first modem was at 2400 baud. Can't believe how slow it must have been at 300! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- randomqjohn · 2022-10-03 09:44 300 baud was so slow you could read a text file while you downloaded it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gstandard00 · 2022-10-03 12:07 Use to private text bomb a user on a multiline chatbbs via macros that was on 300bps. Took him ages to clear his buffer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WhateverGreg · 2022-10-03 12:17 My first modem was a 300 baud sidecar for the PCjr. I eventually saved up and bought a 1200 baud modem. I was in junior high and it was my first “big” purchase. I pretended to be sick the day it was to arrive. I associate the 80s movie “Hunk” with that day, since I watched it while waiting on the delivery. It was the beginning of so many future UPS and FedEx tech delivers. Well, probably too many… ---------------------------------------------------------------------- quentinnuk · 2022-10-03 13:13 My first modem on my Apple II+ was 300bps Hayes micromodem card. This would be about 1979. The manual is at https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ft p.apple.asimov.net/documentation/hardware/io/Hayes%20Micromodem%20II%2 0Manual.pdf My second modem was a 1200/75 modem which was compatible with the UK Prestel service (Viewdata standard), This transmitted at 75bps and received at 1200bps. I think I got that about 82. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mrbill1234 · 2022-10-03 19:31 Aka 1200/75 was V.23 (Bell 202 in the US). 300bps full duplex was V.21 (Bell 103 in the US). I had a Novation Apple-Cat II model which did all of them in my Apple ][+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- scubascratch · 2022-10-03 22:12 You may find it amusing to know that even to this day, the digital modem inside virtually every cell phone, implements an “AT” command set related to that Hayes micromodem.