In article 7>,
Wayne Boatwright > wrote:

> On Fri 11 Sep 2009 07:41:39p, ffu told us...
>
> > On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:13:31 -0400, Dave Smith
> > > wrote:
> >
> > -->Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
> > -->
> > -->> Killfiling seems so silly. Isn't it mostly a leftover from the
> > days -->> where even text-only used significant bandwidth?
> > -->
> > -->If nothing else, it saves you the temptation of responding when it is
> > -->difficult to be polite.
> > -->
> > -->> My 2400 baud modem
> > -->> just can't keep up with all these unwanted headers? Is that what
> > it -->> was for?
> > -->
> > -->
> > -->2400??? You can't be serious. That is almost stone age.
> >
> > I started with a 300 baud, start downloading a 1 meg file update
> > usually at bed, and by morning it had been download. God was it cutting
> > edge.
> >
>
> My first computer, a Kaypro 10, had an internal 300 baud modem. Apart from
> Usenet, Fidonet, etc., I was a member on several interactive bulletin
> boards. In conversaston mode, I could usually type faster than the replies
> I was receiving. I soon upgraded to an external 2400 baud modem.

You must be a very fast typist. It was usually figured that uploading
(which was typing back then) was 75 baud. That translates to 7.5 bytes
per second, or characters per second. Assuming 5 characters plus a
space per word, that's 1.2 words per second, which is 75 wpm. That's
still pretty fast typing. If my math is correct, then 300 baud would be
300WPM.

I believe that many 1200 baud modems were configured for 75 baud upload
and the rest download, since people read much faster than they write.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA