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LiberalArkie

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4. Don't know the reason why, maybe the errors that the 110 gave back when rural long distance was open wire.

Reply to erronis (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 14, 2025, 11:00 AM

Apr 14

I used Telex later on where I was working, and it was prone to errors. Who knows, I was just a pup working for Western Electric back then and seemed to be relegated to DOD stuff and mainly Air Force it seemed. I guess once a person was good at a particular things they stayed with it.

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(A Good long read). An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1 [View all] LiberalArkie Apr 14 OP

Looking forward to reading this. I remember using the Model 33 and 35 and being funded by ARPA erronis Apr 14 #1

I remember back as a young pup, hooking up 60 baud modems into concentrators to get up to 9600 baud for that LiberalArkie Apr 14 #2

60 baud? Wow - my earliest ones were 110 - even said baudot back in those days. erronis Apr 14 #3

Don't know the reason why, maybe the errors that the 110 gave back when rural long distance was open wire. LiberalArkie Apr 14 #4

I loved typing on the teletype 33's. The natural rhythm of it. Made in Little Rock Arkansas back then. LiberalArkie Apr 14 #5

Our typing class in high school used the Selectrics. Simeon Salus Apr 14 #6

This was the internet when I first signed on as a college student: hunter Apr 14 #7

ARPA projects changed the world IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 14 #8