[DeFault User]

Agreed, unless you have used a 150 baud acoustic modem and have had to play with stop bits and parity settings, you can't really appreciate what we have today.

I always thought it was like alchemy, pounding on lead trying to make gold. You never got very far but it did build character. You learned how to deal with frustration, disappointment and failure. Success was fleeting but the small rewards were appreciated.

[calex59]

Agreed, unless you have used a 150 baud acoustic modem and have had to play with stop bits and parity settings, you can't really appreciate what we have today.

I remember downloading text and seeing it come on the screen one character at a time. Ahh.. the good old days. 56K my tail!:) Blinding speed compared to those early day modems. My first computer was a Tandy color computer with a tape drive and a TV that doubled as a monitor.