[Vendome]

I think he meant a “Realistic 2400” modem and you are correct on the math.

300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600 - 54000 baud modems.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=sG79U—gN6H9igKx0IHYBQ&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D5qWg6cgFnIU&cd=3&ved=0CCQQtwIwAg&usg=AFQjCNEN5oGtMtIxWMn1c6MhpnwHn0M3Gg

LOL!

first one I heard was given to me by a customer General Electric in 1984.

It was a 300 baud suitcase modem and they used it to connect to something they called a BBS.

The fellow who gave it me showed me how to use it.

I took it back to our office and we played with it for a week before putting on a history shelf.

I found out what all those dorks with Commodore s and TI’s where wasting so much time with.

Amazingly, porn is still the number one time waster.

[Dr. Sivana]

300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600 - 54000 baud modems.

I believe that once you get above 9600 on phone lines, the terminology switches from baud to bps, due to tricks employed to get the higher throughput.

Was your suitcase modem an acoustic modem, which was capable of being used with pay phones and other hard wired phones with traditional handsets? Those were mostly gone by 1984.