I haven't programmed in BASIC for years. Just thinking about it brings me back to high school. That was before microcomputers; we had a teletype with an acoustic modem that you'd place a telephone handset in, and we connected to a timesharing service that leased computer time. The speed was 110 bits per second, if I remember correctly -- not much faster than a fast typist. A lot of high schools had that kind of arrangement back then.
I probably still have the old paper tapes sitting around somewhere. You could read those paper tapes yourself if you had all the ASCII codes memorized :-).