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And then came z-modem and we could squeeze an additional bytes/s out of the connection, depending on the content.

I remember seeing a steady 4.0kB/s on a 33600 baud USRobotics modem and going "wow we are at peak performance, let's just hope noise line or something doesn't degrade it" heheh

good times indeed.

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At my first computer related job, they had a T1 line. My jaw hit the floor when I downlaoded a driver at 150kB/s

'that was faster than copying a floppy disk'