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I had a 300 bps modem that could do half-duplex 1200 bps with another of its kind, the coolest modem ever made:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novation_CAT#The_Apple-CAT_II

BTW baud != bps. A full-duplex 1200 bps modem is actually 600 baud:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#Evolution_of_dial-up_spe...

I heard Shoemaker or Levy once talk about the modem on Voyager...running at a blistering 10 bps. I keep our old 2400 bps modem around as a curio. The memories are interesting and fun for me, but I get that they may not be so much for some of the other engineers I work with.

My first modem was 1200 baud! This was back in 1988, I think.

I remember when I upgraded to 9600 in the early 90's. It was an incredible upgrade. I also ran my first SLIP connection on that machine (an Amiga), probably around 1993 or 94.

The 4800bps was directly attached to a computer, no modem. If both were set to 9600, the terminal would miss characters. But most dumb terminals were fast enough to keep up at 9600.