But still, I remember the 56k standard that would chug along at 28.8kbps (36.6kbps on a good day). Good times (I was always fascinated by the tones, as annoying as they were...).
I think this is where I'm supposed to point out that long away and far ago, my first dialup system involved a Pennywhistle (brand name) modem that gloried in three, yes three different speeds: 110, 150, and 300 baud. Note the absence of a K anywhere in there.
We're talking 110/150/300
bits. Per. Second. The "computer" involved was an uppercase-only
Teletype model 33 terminal, which used the 110 baud setting, which meant in full-speed output it chugged along at a whole 10 characters per second. (While ASCII bytes are only 8 bits long, the modem was transmitting 1 parity bit and two ECC (Error Correcting Code) bits with each byte, for a total of 11 bits per character.)
We used this terminal to connect from my junior high school to a timesharing system at Wilson High School on the other side of town, and 95% of what we used it for was playing
Trek73. (I still have several large rolls of paper containing old game printouts in a box in the basement somewhere.) We're talking slooooooooooow.
