Comment by thr0w__4w4y
5 years ago
My first modem was a Hayes-brand 300 baud modem. Atari 800 computer.
So I'll kindly ask you to get off my lawn, whipper-snapper.
(BTW I listen to a lot of ambient / noise / drone music, and a while ago, some artist took those modem sounds, slowed them down, put in some reverb, etc. and it was downright ghostly).
It wasn't exactly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2v32xCD0Y
but it wasn't too far off.
80 Baud here. Dial-up to a Teletext service.
Whipper-snapper.
110 baud. 9 hours to download a book.
The fun things about 300 baud was I could pick up the phone and hear the individual keystrokes being sent. I couldn't distinguish what particular character was being sent, unless of course I was the one typing.
It gives me the same eerie feeling as listening to number stations.