• @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    Hayes 1200. Anyone know why these things were built to be bombproof? Always kinda wondered about that…

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    First one that I had myself was a 300 baud acoustic modem. It came in a wooden box that was about the size of a shoe box but more square.

  • I, Mekon
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    51 year ago

    300baud from work. Fun times logging in with it. Eventually moved to 2400baud.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      That was my first one as well.

      My first PC modem was the US Robotics Sportster 14400 FAX Modem. A cool feature was that you could flip a couple of bits and it would do 19200. USR reportedly grumbled about that breaking the warranty and using it against its design limits, but it worked great.

  • @[email protected]
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    My brother had an acoustic coupled 300 baud modem for his C64, but that stuff was off limits to me. My first was a 2400 baud on ISA card, I bought for the family IBM XT Clone when I was maybe 13, I came up with the money with a hustle. I bought an old lionel train set at a garage sale with $20, sold it to a train shop for $100 (they probably screwed me over). It was my first pc component install, I remember setting the dip switches for the IRQ channel.

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    First was a Novation CAT 110/300 baud with acoustic coupler. Later I got a Practical Peripherals 1200, then a Zoom Telephonics 2400/9600. Then I bought a US Robotics Courier HST, it cost a ridiculous amount at the time. A few years later was working and I mailed it and an actual check to USR and they swapped it for a Courier vEverything (with the 20Mhz DSP). I still have that modem and a newer vEverything I salvaged.

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    Supra 2400, to LineLink 144E, to Practical Peripherals 28.8 (all of these external). Being a kid I was limited to upgrading when birthday and holiday money was saved up.

    To one way broadband with this weird box containing a 56kbps modem you plugged a phone cord into for the uplink and a 1.5mbps downlink over cable coax. Bi directional broadband wasnt available yet.

  • DastardlyB
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    300 baud, I wish I could remember what brand it was. I think I had it hooked up to my Apple ][+ and dialed in to College.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    I don’t know the model, but my first modem was 2400 baud

    Downloading anything took forever but it was still a magical experience to me!

    I couldn’t figure out how to silence the modem sounds either (if it was even possible) so every time I wanted to use the computer when someone in the house was sleeping I had to pray the connection sounds wouldn’t wake anyone up!

    • Beej Jorgensen
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      31 year ago

      ATL0 or ATM0 should have silenced it. Unfortunately I had to use the Internet to look that up. :)

      • @[email protected]OP
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        21 year ago

        saving this for when time travel is invented so I can go back and tell my younger self, my mother would appreciate it!

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    31 year ago

    It was a Radio Shack 300 baud modem. A little googling seems to indicate is would likely have been a Tandy DCM-3 “Direct Connect” (as opposed to acoustic coupler) modem.

    It was in-line between the wall and a phone so you would pick up the phone, dial the number, head the modem tone, press a red button on the top of the modem and hang up the phone.

  • Flex
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    31 year ago

    14.4k. Then 28.8k. Then 56k. Then T1 from my local computer group, and finally cable… fiber is coming this year.

    I’m going to serve 2600.network over fiber. Somehow I wound up at the beginning.