Re: Terminal Emulation rates

["Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

"Eric Smith" <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com> wrote in message
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> I'm not disagreeing with what you wrote, but in 1980-1982 a lot of the
> people I knew had the Novation AppleCat modem.  It would do the usual
> 110 and 300 bps (Bell 103) in full duplex, but could also support
> the asymmetric 1200 bps/75 bps Bell 202 standard.  I don't remember any
> BBSes supporting that, but I routinely used it when transferring files
> to friends.  It worked great for Xmodem file transfers since the majority
> of the traffic was in one direction with only the low-bandwidth ACKs
> going in the reverse direction.
>
> The AppleCat was designed to accomodate an optional 1200 bps full duplex
> (Bell 212) daughtercard, but they were introduced later and were fairly
> pricy.  The Bell 212 standard became the dominant 1200 bps dialup
> standard in the U.S., while most of the world used V.22.  The 1200 bps
> smartmodems hit commodity status and sub-$100 prices in 1985, about the
> time that 2400 bps modems (V.22bis, such as the Courrier 2400) hit the
> market (around $600).

I had one back then, well three actually - all with the 212 option, maxed
out with the firmware, touchtone and BSR options. I think I have 4 or 5
Applecats in storage right now.

For several years, I ran the central AE Pro/Catfur in the Chicago area for
"The Chicago Mafia", later known just as "The Mafia", a group of mostly
crackers and phreakers. You may see our work here and there on software we
published for the Applecat and on commercial disk (i.e. cracked games)
images floating around.

My handle was "Syntax Terror" but I also went as "Sometimes Jones"... We
eventually converted to Alfa III and later Prime BBS - still using the
Applecat. It wasn't until the oh-so affordable Avatex external 2400bps modem
appeared on the scene that I upgraded. I didn't care for the Prometheus or
Datalink 2400 modems at the time.

Ah, my stupid, rebellious teenager years. Back then, the Applecat was the "b
ling-bling" of modems.