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From: joel@techunix.BITNET (Yossi (Joel) Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Why 300 baud?
Summary: What's so magical about the number 300?
Message-ID: <9686@discus.technion.ac.il>
Date: 30 May 90 13:45:28 GMT
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Reply-To: joel%techunix.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu (Yossi (Joel) Hoffman)
Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. Tech., Haifa Israel
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I was wondering:  why is it that all the common modem speeds are
multiples of 300 baud?  Is there anything special about that number?

Please reply by e-mail, as I don't often read this group.

Thanks.

-Joel
(joel@techunix.technion.ac.il -or- joel@techunix.BITNET)

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