@Lucky188 @sjvn Now now. 110 baud.

@sfleetucker @sjvn You know I typed 110 then I replaced it. Ive slept since then and wasnt sure which it was. Do remember sep cups that I could use to attach RS Mod 100 to a payphone. 😉🤣

@sfleetucker @Lucky188 @sjvn Wow! I recall 300 baud. RS232 is still around. Anybody remember smoke signals?

@BFBucky1 @Lucky188 @sjvn

My first teletype was a 110 baud acoustically coupled terminal to an HP/2000. The sound was "cachunk-cachunk-cachunk" as the print head slowly moved across the paper, followed by a loud thunk as the printhead returned to the start of the next line.

I remember when we upgraded to a 300-baud dot matrix printer/terminal, and the sound became "buzz-return-buzz-return"

@sfleetucker @sjvn @BFBucky1 Id still use a dot matrix printer if they weren't stupid priced. I use the inkjet so infrequently its ink dries up. I've also resorted to sending print jobs to our pub library portal where I can go print them for .10 a page. The cachunk sound reminds me of a boroughs L5000 I had for a while. Kept searching for the processor. Someone finally told me that the bed of nails behind the boards with little wires connecting pins WAS the processor.. um ok...

@Lucky188 @sfleetucker @sjvn Wire Wrap! I forgot about those things.

@sfleetucker @BFBucky1 @Lucky188 <Nods> I also used 110 Teletype in my day. I was so happy to use my 300 baud TI Silent 700 terminal with its thermal paper interface.

@sfleetucker @Lucky188 @sjvn And sheet fold paper and punch cards!

@BFBucky1 @Lucky188 @sjvn

Roll paper to start with, and then sheet-fold. Oh the glory of punch cards and waiting for the operator to load your program.

@sfleetucker @Lucky188 @sjvn One place I worked had a large keypunch department. There were some advantages to punch cards.

@Lucky188 @sjvn Not to get too far off topic but one of my first jobs after the Air Force was changing out 12AX7 and 6AU6 vacuum tubes in chart recorders!