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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven Bellovin[jsw])
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.admin
Subject: Re: Some interesting news stats
Message-ID: <10767@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 25 Oct 88 18:46:31 GMT
References: <5200@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <2206@looking.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <2206@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
...
> When the net started, articles were sent unbatched, uncompressed and
> over 1200 bps modems.  There were some sites on the net using 300 bps
> modems.

In fact, when the net started 300 baud was the norm; very few sites had
1200 bps, since Vadic wasn't licensing their stuff very much, AT&T was
just starting to license theirs, and if you wanted a ``genuine Bell''
unit you had to rent it, at ~$40/mo.....

		--Steve Bellovin

Serious use of 1200 bps for netnews took at least a year, maybe even
longer.