[ih] Question re rate of growth of the Arpanet

[vinton cerf]

Sometime in the early 1970s, Tohoku University was connected at 50 baud, I
believe....

vint


On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM Jaap Akkerhuis via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>  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
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