I heard somewhere 9600 is really as far as we got.

Everything above 9600 is marketing magic and really awesome compression of the basic 9600 modem technology.

If that makes any sense.

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good old 14.4 was mine. didnt use it for much on 3.11 for workgroups if i recall. I was still pretty young

No. It doesn't.

1200/75 was my first modem, connected to a 48K ZX Spectrum.




A Prism VTX 5000 modem. It had no dialling capabilities, so I had to place the call first, and switch it on when I heard the tone. I late modified it to have a pulse dialler.

I had the Commodore 300 baud modem. I forget its number, but it was a long beige box that plugged into the RS-232 on the back.

And I used it to call BBSes. From there, graduated to a 1200 baud, then went to IBM with a 28.8k then 14.4k on BBSes and PPP.

Here, here!

Of course, the first actual digital communication device that I used was an old RTTY machine through a HAL interface to a radio - at .... something around 60 (it actually had a decimal in it, and I can' recall what it was, might have been 67.6 or something strange like that)

Seeing all those 300 baud responses I don't feel so old now. Atari 300 BTW.