[Coco] Is it hopeless...

[James Ross]

Stan Blazejewski wrote:
> I shudder to think how long some of these messages
> would have taken to download at 300 baud :-)

Is 300 baud the same as 300 bps (bits per second)? In essence 30 bytes second?  (8 bit data bytes 2 control bits)

Was 300 baud the de-facto speed back when TTY meant some mechanical typing machine? Is that why it's so slow? Surely even the very first phone lines could carry a signal much faster that 300 bps?

-James