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This brings back a lot of memories: the family Apple IIe and TRS-80 (Trash 80), Compuserve and external modems. Good times! I don't think I ever owned a Hayes external modem though. IIRC my first online experience was with a 9200 baud internal modem.

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You must be conflating 1200 and 9600 baud.

The usual bit-per-second speeds were 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 9600, 14400, 28k, 56k going from the 1970s to the late 1990s.

Wow, you had a 9200 baud modem?!?! My first modem was 300 baud..

It's funny how that translated - for decades to come - into real movie usefulness. In reality, of course, it was ridiculously painful.

What can I say? I was pretty late to the internet show. Never really got deep into the BBS scene, though I do remember doing some exploration of several.

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