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Hayes 1200 Smartmodem Ad, BYTE Magazine, Volume 7, Number 9, September 1982 (infosec.pub)

submitted 7 months ago by marx2k@lemmy.world to c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The drawback of being early is that every BBS you connected to still had 300 baud, so it didn't matter for a while. But when you did match up with another 1200, it felt like warp speed. The only thing that ever beat it was the jump from fast 56k dial-up to cable modem. That was insane.

[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah I remember this being the case when u first got my 9600 but most warez boards were still 2400

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

Don't forget the awesome bundled ISDN with 128kbit 😌