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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: 2400 baud modem
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Date: 7 Jan 88 01:23:00 GMT
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I have the good fortune of having the use of a Univerity owned
2400 baud modem on the Apple I have in my office along with a
1200 baud modem at home.  Although our mainframe uses fullscreen
editing (and a number of other processors), I haven't been enough
impressed by the greater speed of 2400 baud to rush out and spend
nearly $200 to replace my 1200 at home.  Sure 2400 is faster,
but nowhere nearly as dramatic as the difference between 300 and
1200.  File transfer isn't really twice as fast either (faster yes,
but then I usually find something else to do -- read mail, go get
a snack, make a pit stop, etc. -- whenever I transfer a file of
more than a few K); I can think of better uses for the
money (more RAM for instance).

We have a few Apple's around that are connected at 9600 baud (that's
quick for sure, very nice, but most of the time not really any faster
than 4800 baud because Apple's software scrolling 80 col card can't
display characters at much more than that speed in any case.

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ARPA:   sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu       Murphy A. Sewall
BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM                          School of Business Admin.
UUCP:   ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL  University of Connecticut