Nope. Everything's fine here in New Ampst

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I guess the real lesson here is that it's spelled New Amst

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Sigh. I'm sure I'm not the only one here... I distinctly remember purchasing my first 9600bps modem. (A real Hayes, no less! I sent them a large manilla SASE and they shipped me the AT command manual for no charge.) I spent a few months mowing every lawn I could to raise the funds for it. Exactly a week after I got it installed and found a couple local BBSes I could connect to at 9600, Hayes shipped the very first 14400bps modem.

No, no, surely we don't get geek credit for starting with a 9600 baud modem. My first was a 2400 baud (US Robotics, maybe?), and I even used (but never owned) a 300 baud modem. I remember how blazing fast 14400 baud seemed when I first got my hands on it.