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300 baud as 1960's tech?
Pleeeeeezzze!
The 1960's were for 110 baud (10 bytes/second, 11 bits/byte, used an extra parity bit). Or less I remember moving up to 300 baud in the the 1970's. What an improvement. Why, it was just faster than you could read! (Remember, these were the days of text based terminals.)
In the late 1980's i worked for a company that still made
Theoretically you could use morse code, if the entire syntax fits into the morse alphabet. Heck, modern network traffic still uses the very same technology but binary.
Heck, just view the page source and transmit that. both Morse and semaphore should be able to handle such, and those sailors will get the page in less than a week...two days at most.