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RE: Sunday Musings: I Didn't Realize how much I've Missed Social Blogging!
Oh yeah! I totally remember BBS systems... I was even a "sysop" for a while; I remember well (circa 1984) dialing up the University of Texas mainframe to download text messages IF we could get a "clean" connection... using a phone headset and a cradle modem. 300 baud... yep, and it was a really big deal when we were able to connect at 1200 baud. Wow... such speed!
I'm an old fossil, when it comes to tech... wrote my first bit of code in BASIC on 7-hole punched tape (pre-parity bit days); later had lots of "fun" (not!) coding in COBOL on IBM punched cards... nothing quite like dropping a tray of 1300 loose cards on the way down the stairs to the card reader!
Fond memories, indeed!
When the first 9600 baud modems came out, I thought they were shitting me... I thought that the Nyquist theorem denied that such a speed would be possible over a 3.1Khz voice channel...
To be honest, I still don't understand how the heck they were able to achieve 56kbaud modems over voice lines! Some kind of magic going on there! :O