Mike Those are great screen shots.
If you had 300 baud you were one hot mo’fo. Then of course came dizzying speeds of 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600.
Look at some old internet art of bbs and other fora
http://www.textfiles.com/fidonet-on-the-internet/art/
I hope you have memorized the The Hayes Modem Command Set:
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdenetwork/kppp/appendix-hayes-commands.html


