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by ultrasandwich 3285 days ago
It's a little thing, but 14.4kb/s should really be stated as kbit/s. 14.4kbit/s is 1.8kB/s. Looking at this reminded me how fascinating the Wikipedia entry for "modem" is [1]. Apparently "The first 9,600 bit/s modem was developed in 1968, and sold for more than $20,000."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem

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Thanks, ultrasandwich. I have fixed this in the OP.