[ih] Question re rate of growth of the Arpanet

[Jaap Akkerhuis]

 Johan Helsingius via Internet-history writes:

 > On 21/04/2025 22:15, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via 
 > Internet-history wrote:
 >
 > > then there was UUCP... can anyone chime in what the "minimum" acceptable
 > > bit rate for that was?  anything less than Bell 202 at 1.2 or Racal Vadic
 > > at 2.4?
 >
 > Pretty much, yes. Leaf nodes could survive on a 1200 bps connection,
 > but I don't think I ever saw anything slower.

I did. The first connections from mcvax to (multiple) US sites where on 300 bps modems.

	jaap