>>And then there is hardware! Anyone want a 300 baud modem? You know, I have to clean house (garage)! :)
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>300 Baud was kind of fast for those dirty lines we had back then!
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>You did dBase on a MAC - I did 8 bit dBase II on an Osbourne and a Compupro CCPM OS (the first C means "Concurrent) with a super Z-80.
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>I had an intership writting basic programs for that little portable HP with the 4 inch screen and a cassete loader!! I even worked with Billy's basic on a TRS-80! It was so easy to dialup and hack private databases back then (of cours, I didn't do that kind of stuff:)
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>Here is a trick question I got from that era:
>What is the distinction between baud rate and bits per second?
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>>Tom

8 bits to a byte so my 300 baud modem could send 37.5 characters per second. That is the theoretical rate. In 1981 we had a local bulletin board for our S-100 Bus Computer Club in Silicon Valley. You could see the characters being painted across the screen and guess what word would be coming out! Boy did I love my Amber screen monitor! Easy on the eyes!

Sometimes I wish I was still working as an electronics engineer. But then I guess I would not have a job! :)