In the early 80s, I "telecommuted" with an accoustic coupler running at a blazing speed of 300 baud. Everything was character cell, no graphics, the modem ran at 30 characters a second. It took "days" to fill a screen.
In the early 80s, I "telecommuted" with an accoustic coupler running at a blazing speed of 300 baud. Everything was character cell, no graphics, the modem ran at 30 characters a second. It took "days" to fill a screen.
I remember those telephone devices. When I was first starting out, in 1986 or 1987, I had a filing in another city that would have been close to the wire if sent by courier. The people in the secretarial department said, “no problem”, they had a newfangled way to send the document over the telephone to that other city, where one of our other lawyers could sign it and it would get filed no problem. They called it “telecommunicating”. To me, it was magic. My document, a wordperfect file, would get transmitted in data format (as opposed to a fax, which is a picture) to a place far away via the telephone line.