[flohofwoe]

Loading speed for cassette tapes and floppy disks was measured in bits per second at the time (usually between a few hundred to a few thousand bps), that was just what the hardware could handle, even without expensive error correction ;)

[zozbot234]

Makes a lot of sense, too. Why would you even want to load data faster than you can read it on screen, or print it out on paper? That's just a waste for such a minor increase in overall speed.