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@sfleetucker @Lucky188 @sjvn Wow! I recall 300 baud. RS232 is still around. Anybody remember smoke signals?
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 @Lucky188 @sjvn One place I worked had a large keypunch department. There were some advantages to 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.