Yo, 300 baud, checking in.
Do I hear 110?
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AT&C1&D2S36=7DT*70,,,5551212
I didn’t know the phone number, so I bought a Caller ID box, hooked it to my home line, and phoned home. It wasn’t long before every BBS in town had a listing for it.
I had to wait til I was old enough to get a phone line in my own name before running a BBS. And also til I had a modem that would auto-answer, which was not a given back then!
But I confess my first question for a working but unassigned phone line would be: who gets the bill for long distance calls?
I had access to no-cost long distance calling through other administrative oversights, but they were a bit more effort to maintain! :)
Before that I used 50 baud systems in the military as well as civil telex systems.
And I felt privileged because the configuration for my TI-99/4A Terminal Emulator (which I believe was called Terminal Emulator) had options for 110 or 300 baud, and I felt lucky to be able to use the "fast" one. :)
My first modem (you always remember your first) had no carrier detection (and no Hayes commands, and no speaker...), so I would dial the number manually, then flip a switch when I heard the remote end pick up and send carrier to get the synchronization started.
It was incredibly exciting at the time.
It took a couple of years until it would catch on, and by then 1200 and 2400 bps were already the norm - thankfully!
