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Wonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:09 PM
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Poll question: How fast was the very first modem you owned?
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TSIAS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:09 PM
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1. 28k (n/t)
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sociopath Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:12 PM
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2. Aaah...
good old 28.8 Global Village Teleport for the Mac Performa 640.

now on 64/128 K ISDN and that's the fastest we get without satellite.
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leftist_rebel1569 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:14 PM
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3. 9600
wow...back in the day.

now I got something about 1000 times more powerful...lol
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:14 PM
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4. 1200 baud
With a TRS-80 Model 1 computer. 4k RAM, which I upgraded to 16K. 12" b/w monitor with pixels the size of grains of rice. Casette tape drive.
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markbark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:16 PM
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5. 110 baud with acoustic coupler
tied to a VT100 terminal that spoke to the mainframe @ school...

Those were the days.... when computers were built from bear skins and stone knives </old fart rant>


--MAB
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kcwayne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:43 PM
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10. I had one too.
But a vt100 was way too high tech for me. I had a Teletype model 43 keyboard/printer. It beat the hell out of punching cards and standing in line at the mainframe center to submit my programs...
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:17 AM
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19. I had a Model 43 TTY with a 300 baud modem.
This was about 25 years ago.
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GAspnes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 01:10 AM
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22. yer not that old
I used a TI terminal with a 110 acoustic coupler. Thought I'd died and gone to Heaven.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:16 PM
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6. My first on-line device was a model 28 teletype!
I did dial-up to a computer service by dropping the handset in a cradle. Even before the days of dot-matrix printers. I was state of the art!

Whatever happened to me??????????
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:17 PM
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7. Steam-powered 1200 baud Hayes modem....
Edited on Tue Sep-09-03 07:19 PM by FlashHarry
Circa 1988. I remember signing up for classes 'online,' while other students languished in line. It was pretty sweet.
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Interrobang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:26 PM
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8. 2400 on my Amiga 500 with extra memory enhancements and two disk drives!
Man, I was some hot shit!! ;-) I was on Compuserve before any of my friends had any idea that computers could talk to each other over phone lines.
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Slippery_Hammer Donating Member (817 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:34 PM
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9. 300 baud "Coupleur accoustique"
Plugged into my old TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TI-99/4A.



http://www.ti99.com/
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Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 07:46 PM
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11. 300 baud..
on a Commodore 64. We've come a long way.
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Torgo Donating Member (966 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 08:57 PM
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17. 300 Baud on that Commodore 64 & Compuserve Membership
What a combination!

I think the phone calls were the biggest expense!
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Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 02:22 AM
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23. I was on some service called Quantum Link
for Commodores, that later became AOL. While it was in transition, they stopped doing any sort of support for the Commodore section, but kept collecting user fees. That's good old AO-Hell for ya.
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Bright_Future Donating Member (15 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 08:21 PM
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12. 110 baud? did that actually exist?
It was so long ago, but I think I bought a 110 baud modem for my C-64 for $30 from RadioShack back in the 80's :) I was excited to upgrade to a 1200 baud a few years later...
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 08:40 PM
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13. 1200 baud and a beta copy of AOL
back in 1987. Yeah, I knew AOL back when there were only 20 people on it.
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 08:47 PM
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14. I watched an old video taped off tv and saw a CompuServe commercial
from about 1989. I'd forgotten that it was all text-based. Weird.
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Jack_Sparrow Donating Member (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 08:50 PM
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15. 2400
Ah, the early Clinton years. :-)
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 08:51 PM
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16. 1200 baud, but now I have AOL so I must be at least at 2400 baud
Edited on Tue Sep-09-03 08:54 PM by lunabush
God, it sucks SO bad. In a month, they say, we will finally have broadband out here. One more month, one more month... AOL is a waste of a good 56k modem and my network card is just languishing here in this machine while the cable company digs through the rock to get to me...
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 08:57 PM
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18. 2400 baud
on a Mac LC III.

When I gpt a 9600 baud modem on my next computer, I thought I was really smokin'!
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:18 AM
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20. A 300 baud....
modem with acoustic coupler. To attach to the mainframe at my college.

And at the time, I thought it was SOOOO bitching.
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Dirk39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:27 AM
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21. Modem, what kind of science-fiction device is this...
I had to go with my parents' accoustic-coupler long ago. 300 strong and serious bauds. Sold it to a sailor decades ago. Was afraid that he would come back with as many knifes as tatoos and ask me, how to make it work.
Hope he's happy now,
otherwise it's okay to live in Germany with lots of whater surrounding you,
Dirk
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