Is it loading slow or is it just me? blazing fast 300 baud dial up
I started with a 300 baud modem on a CP/M machine. Used it to log onto Cleveland Freenet ( http://cfn.tangledhelix.com/history.html ), the first free Usenet server open to the public on the planet if I recall correctly. When I moved on to a 1200 baud screamer the text moved so fast on the screen you couldn't read it. No problem, I saved everything to disk (300 kb) to read later. Around the same time I read a letter of complaint from a professional lambasting his 1200 baud modem because he too could no longer read the text flashing by on the screen.
I believe the 1200 baud modem, no longer cutting edge at the time of purchase cost around $250.00 (ballpark 5 or 6 hundred dollars in today's money) and the USR 9600 I got a few years later retailed around 1K$ (ballpark 2.5K$ today). I got a real deal at $300 !
Perhaps it hasn't had as much traffic in years as the amount brought to it by my bringing it to the attention of all of us Freepers. . . Grin!