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- From: dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa)
- Subject: Re: Wanted: Altair 800 or Imsai 8080 and Modem
- Message-ID: <BxuK02.54q@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <PPV2TB7w165w@mertwig.UUCP> <1992Nov12.055704.11469@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <BxqFnI.D4M@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:14:25 GMT
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- In article <BxqFnI.D4M@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> dagbrown@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov12.055704.11469@fcom.cc.utah.edu> bcc@lanai.Eyring.COM (Brian Cooper) writes:
- >>Of course, other baud rates in those early boxes were 75, 110, and 150.
- >>Working at 110 baud would make you very tired, very quickly. I think that
- >>110 was what was meant above, not 100 baud.
- >
- >Yeah, but why 110 baud, of all baud rates? (Is this a bit like
- >the 6250bpi on a tape thread a while back?) Why even _bother_ with
- >it?
- >
- >
- >--
- >Dave Brown
- >dagbrown@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
- >Phone: (519) 438-0530
- >"What God want, God gets. God help us all." --Roger Waters
-
- It was 10 CPS - 8 data bits, 1 start bit, *2* stop bits, 11 bits/char
- yielded 110 baud... (and I remember some later models that used 1.5
- stop bits.. 75 baud was a holdover from the Baudot days)
- <dp>
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