[CT] Terminal Freedom

[Daniel Moran]

At 02:26 PM 6/9/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>People pester me about getting into chat, but even typing
>90 wpm the baudrate for chat is nowhere near that for another
>wonderful invention: the telephone.  Life is too short, once the
>novelty of two-way teletypes wears off.

Yeah, that's mostly accurate -- one of the reasons chat has never appealed 
to me. But it turns out to be a wonderful tool for writing together.

>I was doing two-way over Compuserv in '75.  It was novel
>then, is still novel...but is not efficient use of a brief organic lifetime.
>Consider that 110 baud was fast enough for most two-way chat,
>and nobody (that I know of) can type at 1200 baud.

I used to be able to outtype a 1200 baud connection in spurts. Never 
happened at 24, never happened at 12 for more than a few seconds. It was 
easy to outtype 300 baud connections. (On the face of it, I know, it's a 
ridiculous idea that I could type faster than 1200 baud. But line noise, 
whatever, it used to happen.)

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