[extropy-chat] Baud rates vs bod rates

[Mike Lorrey]

--- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Kevin I will give you a free horror story, since (I think)
> you are a young man.  We (I and my fellow geezers) used to 
> work on computers that scrolled text at 300 baud.  When
> raging technology jumped it to 1200, we were convinced 
> we couldn't read that fast, so it would be pointless for
> modems to go faster.  Shreeeeeeeek!  Now of course we
> get short apoplectic if our cable modems drop to much
> less than a thousand times that speed.

Shit. Now I'm a geezer. So much for extropic longevity. Of course I was
12 or 13 when I recall we geezers chatted about such things.

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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