I had a USR 2400 baud external modem. Local ISP offered PPP service as well. We also had a few BBS's in the area of which I ran two of them.

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:31 AM Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav@humancapitaldev.com> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Ben Cannon <ben@6by7.net> wrote:
>
> I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line.   And 9600 baud modems…

Hayes Smartmodem here, 1200 baud. Local BBS offered PPP service.

When I got my first sysadmin job, $work had a T1 and it felt like more speed than was fair…