I don’t do this often but when I do its for a reason.

Ok first there was not a 9600 baud modem. There was a 9600 bit/s modem. All modems that transferred at 9600 bit/s were either 1200 or 2400 baud modems. Baud is the rate of pulses a second not the bitrate.

Thanks! That means a lot as I just wrote this up at lightning speed!

I do vaguely recall using a 1200 baud modem to talk to the mainframe at the university back in the early 80s. Of course we were only ever sending text, not images. By the early 90s I definitely remember the torture of my 9600 baud modem. I even downloaded and installed one of the early linux distros (slackware) using…

Great “non-clickbait” title, Thanks.
Very good article, Thanks.


(I was really dreading the “Everything you know about Pluto is wrong!” title I figure someone would use.)