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@sabi for the most part: #HSCSD @ 115,2 kBit/s (mostly due to throttling on #3G… |
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@sabi local telco offered 20hrs p.m. of ISDN with free channel bonding for ~ �… |
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Post #AjMXDlmzyd0IgYDs92 by [email protected] |
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@sabi 300bps is super simple and just 4x the tty speed of 75bps...2400bps is th… |
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@sabi Where do I put sending a cassette tape by snail mail? |
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Post #AjMadpEC79TWk33jIO by [email protected] |
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@sabi 100 baud acoustically coupled phone modem... Then moved up to a 300 baud … |
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Post #AjMbG7687fc7AVXoJs by [email protected] |
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@sabi They were definitely expensive, but I had a distant relative who got the … |
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Post #AjMbOP1dLvQX5POTfk by [email protected] |
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@sabi 110! |
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Post #AjMbdRmJOqXjy4Oup6 by [email protected] |
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@sabi we had an audio-coupled 300 baud, but that was my mom’s. My first compu… |
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Post #AjMcfl88WK0SWKH8sK by [email protected] |
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Post #AjMctBG2gqgrJmNCi0 by [email protected] |
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@sabi I hid the fact I had a modem from my folks for a couple of years. |
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Post #AjMdRexWleF5HU9bg8 by [email protected] |
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@sabi Actually it was just 110. |
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Post #AjMdtlXDudrTmeFiAS by [email protected] |
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@kkarhan @sabi Even if you gain access to the copper and patch in directly. |
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Post #AjMdtldFYEgM5L4WYq by [email protected] |
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@drwho @sabi depends on the #POTS / #PSTN system.In some cases, that may be it.… |
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Post #AjMe4wtA2WB6BMqW4e by [email protected] |
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@sabi internal USR Sportster 33.6. Memories :-) |
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Post #AjMeFAhjWnkTvWNLHc by [email protected] |
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@sabi ..... Why is the curve taking on the Cisco Logo? I mean, yes, Cisco took … |
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Post #AjMeJd4I0vmn3P3FlA by [email protected] |
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@sabi a 300 baud VICMODEM was borrowed from a friend for a couple months and I … |
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Post #AjMeT7DVI8XHAFsuky by [email protected] |
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@sabi used it all at work, at home, 14.4, I guess |
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Post #AjMeTHvpSBvwOchSEa by [email protected] |
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@sabi "omg the designers want to send another huge file?? when will they r… |
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Post #AjMeZmY0XPKn5RecYS by [email protected] |
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@sabi Acoustic coupler 300baud terminal into CMU edu from my dorm, circa 1986 |
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Post #AjMecHMKx365E8NzNo by [email protected] |
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@sabi I had T1 in college, but other than ""Fancy"" I'm… |
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Post #AjMeiLl9VKMMbyt7GS by [email protected] |
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@sabi 300 with a BOOST toggle for 1200. |
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Post #AjMejnVfoZSEy2L1dI by [email protected] |
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@sabi Anybody remember SLIP ? (Serial Line Internet Protocol IIRC) |
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Post #AjMesFnsVHMt2Esxl2 by [email protected] |
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@sabi 56k but over a radio "landline", whatever the hell that thing w… |
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Post #AjMfEecutMv4OTRK0u by [email protected] |
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@sabi compression hardware doesn’t count right? |
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Post #AjMfK1W1DgGSpVm0zg by [email protected] |
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@sabi @Meyerweb oh the memories. I remember getting a 56k and thought it was bl… |
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Post #AjMfUjci5A9cWY0jbs by [email protected] |
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@sabi trading pirated games was just an excuse to visit a bunch of boards, I al… |
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Post #AjMfUpvMeido48miWG by [email protected] |
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@sabi First, let me explain to you a landline phone device circa 1986... 😎 L… |
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Post #AjMff18znNTRl910s4 by [email protected] |
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@sabi what makes this feels especially accurate is the smaller numbers for 1200… |
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Post #AjMfp5uOw4ADQrzgOW by [email protected] |
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@sabi Somewhere between 14.4-33.6 kb/s. |
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Post #AjMfqZkJUEl8GDyvRY by [email protected] |
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@sabi It was like a VPN, except on a serial terminal rather than a layer on a m… |
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Post #AjMg7dy32oOIHCXpjs by [email protected] |
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@jab01701mid @sabi I bought MacSlip directly from the publisher—by which I me… |
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Post #AjMg7e44gPDAZtMe8G by [email protected] |
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@adamrice @sabi Remember that time when you could write some software, put it o… |
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Post #AjMg80g6bghkiDKKSu by [email protected] |
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@sabi I am not very tech, so don't recall what my first modem at home was, … |
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Post #AjMgCl1uDMpfcxmtGK by [email protected] |
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@sabi Remarkable number of us old-timers! I like this. |
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Post #AjMgFoIQWhLecvyFkm by [email protected] |
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@sabi First I owned was 2400, but first I used was the old phone in rubber cupp… |
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Post #AjMgLX8RFBIF8l1myG by [email protected] |
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@sabi https://github.com/kamalmostafa/minimodem |
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Post #AjMgRhMq75n4c2hgS8 by [email protected] |
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@sabi All of us using ASR-33s and the like were 110. |
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Post #AjMgsthiM0HQh1RA48 by [email protected] |
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@kkarhan @drwho @sabi @BNetzA 2400 was the first "big step", below th… |
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Post #AjMgtG5Z80Qm7MlWIS by [email protected] |
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@sabi I’m an outlier, because even though I first started using the internet … |
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Post #AjMhEe7WyRtAjRsoSG by [email protected] |
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@sabi @feoh I did not own a 110 acoustic coupler but I used one when dinosaurs … |
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Post #AjMjIEScWCk4DSaLVg by [email protected] |
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@sabi the first modem I remember was 14.4 but my mom ran a boutique software co… |
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Post #AjMl0yawSBhLzjNRI0 by [email protected] |
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@sabi Technically, my first "modem" would have been a suitcase sized … |
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Post #AjMll9H54xxKRD6VJg by [email protected] |
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@sabi USRobotics Sportser Voice 33.6kSold it to a client at some point so they … |
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Post #AjMmvpBuBnCbI1Kzq4 by [email protected] |
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@sabi @Meyerweb I had not realized so many of these numbers have taken up perma… |
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Post #AjMmyx3RPRheXwrya0 by [email protected] |
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@sabi Looking forward to seeing the final results! It seems every time speed qu… |
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Post #AjMn1ITKkZZTYF6CZM by [email protected] |
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@sabi Midcentury Modem (not my first, but my oldest) |
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Post #AjMn3hzOqgkpGqFPjk by [email protected] |
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@sabi That update from 300 to 1200 baud was still the most exciting bandwidth i… |
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Post #AjMnBQEUkcqeW4zDd2 by [email protected] |
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@sabi 64k (ISDN - we wanted to be online and make phone calls at the same time) |
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Post #AjMnC6YTOjmhmCelbE by [email protected] |
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@sabi I have no clue, I was to young to remember anything besides PPP and the n… |
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Post #AjMnHru6mcDK4gWaO0 by [email protected] |
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@sabi Direct, I think. It took special rolls of paper which would turn brown if… |
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Post #AjMo46Fmjc9uTlf7I0 by [email protected] |
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@sabi 56k but on the line I was able to acquire a usage permit for, I was only … |
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Post #AjMojCf3oeM0E15HRA by [email protected] |
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@sabi my first was 2400, it came with my Packard Bell 486.now, my first that WO… |
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Post #AjMopZ23YQr9LQsCyu by [email protected] |
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@sabi @paul_ipv6 Glad to see my fellow 300s representing! |
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Post #AjMqawOWbwyrMmXOwS by [email protected] |
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@sabi My personal first was 300 baud.But I did use 110 baud between a Decwriter… |
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Post #AjMu8chadKzq02CwaW by [email protected] |
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@sabi IIRC, my first was a Bell 101 modem, featuring a blazing 110 baud. It was… |
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Post #AjN0iySPpCN3cdpJxI by [email protected] |
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@sabi 110 Audio Coupler, not on the list. |
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Post #AjNAHfDmEe5NgYb0Ou by [email protected] |
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@sabi It was 45.45 Baud for RTTY (Radio Tele typing) on HAM radio in 1981. |
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Post #AjNAT4H5QZouZYa8DQ by [email protected] |
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@sabi the Courier modem I had was 2400 baud, but it claimed you could get 9600 … |
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Post #AjNAYiDIMakdt9V2tk by [email protected] |
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@sabi I remember chatting with someone on CompuServe who just got a 1200 “in… |
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Post #AjNAjzFbMMvhuixG2S by [email protected] |
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@sabi @paul_ipv6 110. Acoustic coupler. It was awesome. |
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Post #AjNAjzLczxkaDPm4Qq by [email protected] |
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@abhayakara @sabi :)didn't get to play with one of those until much later (… |
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Post #AjNAp067db8bzNuZwO by [email protected] |
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@sabi I voted 1200, but symetry was kind of unusual back then, my first modem w… |
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Post #AjNFXB2aiEvgUEa2vg by [email protected] |
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@sabi funny since mine was less than 300, but I picked 300 |
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Post #AjNFi5z7qnQ1zXAL1E by [email protected] |
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@sabi Technically 14.4 in terms of dialing and using a modem myself - but I hav… |
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Post #AjNFn8D50NxwLA5t5M by [email protected] |
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@sabi My parents only got broadband in 2005 (Adelphia cable modem). Before then… |
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Post #AjNFw6vz7MFczRNbGq by [email protected] |
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@sabi 300 baud with my Commodore 64. It came with a trial subscription to a co… |
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Post #AjNG87nDkcuH800cXg by [email protected] |
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@sabi Mine really was 110 baud. |
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Post #AjNGCyv6AT3b3b0f6u by [email protected] |
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@sabi In my second job out of college (circa 1997), I used my then-ancient 1200… |
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Post #AjNGdIIYk3w2gfWvcO by [email protected] |
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@sabi Ok so here's the thingMy parents had dialup up until about 2009 or so… |
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Post #AjNGdJ7xex3HG5Zyjo by [email protected] |
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@sabi Funny thing about that free ethernet, it was a small ISP that worked with… |
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Post #AjNGqLFL5n3LaxFHPs by [email protected] |
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@sabi Doing my part for the 4 young people on Fedi and voting “I've only … |
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Post #AjNI7Gb9j8q63Y5IEy by [email protected] |
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@sabi I blame it on being old. |
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Post #AjNIAYUpdgzgR0h7ho by [email protected] |
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@sabiBBSes were lonnnnnngggg dead when I was born but I have fond memories of p… |
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@sabi First one I actually remember was definitely 56.6K, though of course it o… |
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Post #AjNKmsmsqTHoHMXe4m by [email protected] |
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@sabi @kkarhan I worked for Pacific Bell Internet in the '90s. the product … |
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Post #AjNKmstGSkOGb9Wk1Q by [email protected] |
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@datn @sabi Whereas in #Germany #ISDN was more of a norm than exception to the … |
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Post #AjNKqKo189Le2qiZYO by [email protected] |
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@sabi Could you turn it off with ISA modems? Most of what my family had were i… |
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Post #AjNOi3g7KFMaQQKdF2 by [email protected] |
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@sabi first modem was a hybrid modem/soundcard. Depending on boot time config, … |
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Post #AjOFoj6DX0cyCLbXqy by [email protected] |
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@sabi I grew up just as normies were invading all the cool parts of the interne… |
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Post #AjOFv0LEL2m1PYcWlE by [email protected] |
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@sabi Last option, but I got cable in 96 when I was 15 or 16 years old 🤷 |
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@sabi I checked 300, but the first dial-up data communications device I ever us… |
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Post #AjOGDonvSQXn8D0uMy by [email protected] |
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@sabi 64 kBit via ISDN |
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@sabi 300 baud acoustic coupler for me. It was quite horrible really and it did… |
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Post #AjOGTlOxsNDxDBwRGq by [email protected] |
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@sabi My first modem had several speeds. 300/300 full duplex, 1200/75 full dupl… |
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Post #AjOGjs153AhuMPRyEq by [email protected] |
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@sabi you’re missing 19.2 |
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@sabi 2400 baud US Robotics. Costed a fortune. And the phone bills on top of th… |
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Post #AjOGxUCcO1QUYbL6Om by [email protected] |
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@sabi My first modem was a a used decommissioned military modem in a grey 19&qu… |
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Post #AjOH37ytuwPxNPc5bs by [email protected] |
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@sabi Maybe ask first if it was an acoustic coupler, classic modem, ISDN modem,… |
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Post #AjOHBdyopa52w3dTmq by [email protected] |
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@sabi back in the days… |
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Post #AjOHVG5xLOJceKKLjc by [email protected] |
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@sabi it was an IBM Mwave card that shipped in an Aptiva desktop: https://en.m.… |
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@sabi @futzle not our first but definitely the favourite in terms of turning it… |
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@sabi This was on a 100Mbps connection. 😂 |
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@sabi However, my first internet was a dial in shell account on a unix box that… |
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Post #AjOjAvynDkxzBf4chk by [email protected] |
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@sabiNo modem, 64k ISDN.@vagrantc |
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Post #AjOjKgDChPNdBGSf1U by [email protected] |
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@sabi Fiber optic is so much faster,. |
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Post #AjOjbHoKfvUeQOkLFw by [email protected] |
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@sabi my parents had dialup when I was a kid, but I never knew any numbers abou… |
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@sabi first modem was 14k4, but I left home probably a month after that and got… |
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@[email protected] Technically we had 56k, but our phone lines were ancient re… |
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@sabi I remember a sysop of a local BBS breaking in to chat with me before I… |
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@sabi I love how this is also an age distribution, by proxy, of folks who voted… |
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Now I need to hear the dial up noise |
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Post #AjOv1JYBve0OqSoIfQ by [email protected] |
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@sabi in my head it was 200, so I picked 300 |
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Post #AjPGTD8xRQXq7V9Pou by [email protected] |
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@sabi My first was a *fraction* of a 1200, through a multiplexer used by at lea… |
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Post #AjQ4oE0iPN32bAVdQG by [email protected] |
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@sabi not my first but for a while at one job we had a homebrew arrangement of … |
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Post #AjQ4yFA4z2Wf42fNjc by [email protected] |
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@sabi ISDN card. it was free on sunday so my download manager was busy that day… |
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Post #AjQ58V6WZ1a9PBtWUa by [email protected] |
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@sabi I like the spike at 14k4 because to my best memory that was the speed-du-… |
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Post #AjQ5cugW1LPDQgENnM by [email protected] |
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@sabiThis one |
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@sabi 56k BUT it was a Winmodem so when I switched to Linux there were only uns… |
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Post #AjQ68bILeAduYl2KR6 by [email protected] |
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@sabi Acoustic coupler. Also phone booth. Epson PX-8 hacking into JANET. Those … |
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Post #AjQ6FxDUXbhmZkGtAu by [email protected] |
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@sabi Me too - in a sturdy external aluminium casing with blinkenlights! 🚥�… |
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Post #AjQ6S0HYy7ofYgvBjM by [email protected] |
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@sabi we were using FreeBSD :) |
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Post #AjQ8kPUcAvIGrtvmLY by [email protected] |
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@sabi a network engineer only knows 9600 🙈 |
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Post #AjQUHMkJVTYQwWpVFw by [email protected] |
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@sabi @jalcine 110 isn’t on the list :)But realistically, although I’ve use… |
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Post #AjQcW0spsABn7AJM36 by [email protected] |
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@sabi I remember the first time I tried to download a 1 MB file, on 14.4k dialu… |
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Post #AjQcjjEWICacQYzfrE by [email protected] |
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@sabiIt was for a Commodore 64. It had no dialup capability. You dialed the n… |
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Post #AjQcoXvNlVwSnnL72W by [email protected] |
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@sabi How old am I? I'm "my first modem used an acoustic coupler"… |
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Post #AjQd3FQ2qmllkhgxoO by [email protected] |
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@sabi I don't remember, but most of those numbers look familiar. |
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Post #AjQdIPYNS9xxWkotIu by [email protected] |
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@sabi @smurthys I remember when we upgraded to 56k - I thought we were FLYING :… |
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Post #AjQdIPeP5kmppRdhhI by [email protected] |
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@aronow @sabi simple(r) times indeed.https://hachyderm.io/@smurthys/11142176642… |
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Post #AjQdW2mmtoZqy93pa4 by [email protected] |
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@sabi new cisco curwb devices have 115200 - how behave |
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Post #AjQhcgktbe18UDbFYW by [email protected] |
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@sabi I went from a Smartmodem 300 to a Courier HST Dual Standard 14,400. When … |
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Post #AjQjgtsAyfzuEh8o08 by [email protected] |
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@sabi 19.2 - not listed! |
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Post #AjQjlCStnHQP3cMtAe by [email protected] |
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@sabi it was 64k ISDN and 128k if you used both channels! |
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Post #AjQjrqzm14WaUsuxc0 by [email protected] |
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@sabi *My* first, or the first one I had access to? I answered the first one I … |
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Post #AjQjt4i0W1THJnBqTI by [email protected] |
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@sabi 14.4 k ...now I´m feeling old again...😑 |
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Post #AjQkB0m1svQ4KHcl7o by [email protected] |
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@sabi Technically my answer should’ve been 1200/75 since the first modem in m… |
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Post #AjQkKIdmpD4iLWCJFI by [email protected] |
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@sabi Some cyberpunk author was talking about how they'd picked up and used… |
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Post #AjQkS7R8Mi8Huj0YMK by [email protected] |
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@sabi citizen band radio + null modem. Kilometers of reach! One of the peer sta… |
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Post #AjQl0keV4LXBNum2ls by [email protected] |
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@sabi in the plus side, your modems probably made funny sounds 😋.also it was… |
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Post #AjQl8GYaqXhMMXauGG by [email protected] |
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@sabi I was a little kid, I'm not sure the 200 was even the first, there ma… |
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Post #AjQnEJmBzQTBzcy7No by [email protected] |
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@sabi @isagalaev Internal modems were a nightmare. IRQ conflicts on ISA, shitty… |
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Post #AjSLmH0wMBcks7BoUS by [email protected] |
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@sabi the year was 1996. I was 15 y/o. First upgrade I did on my 486 PC was ins… |
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Post #AjSZjNFK82hagoQeS8 by [email protected] |
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@sabi1200/75 - 1200 full duplex was considered an expensive luxury. |
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Post #AjSaXHWJgwhBPUAuUi by [email protected] |
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@sabi ELSA microlink vibes intensifies.. |
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Post #AjSaiyqExqPmxE4Yhk by [email protected] |
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@sabi Took me hours to download my first online game: MPBT. |
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Post #AjSatuUjSy4AerDxJI by [email protected] |
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@sabi good old US Robotics 14400 modem :)in the days when PC's had proper s… |
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Post #AjSbNurOfhNKTm8Js0 by [email protected] |
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@sabi A "Datenklo" (lit. "data loo")-style acoustic coupler… |
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Post #AjSbPVDQzLEVWVCIpE by [email protected] |
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@sabi yes. Suddenly my tiny room lost in the middle of south america was able t… |
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Post #AjSbboBiHADXq7GCZc by [email protected] |
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@sabi Since I ran a BBS (or two) for close to a decade, for a long while I coul… |
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Post #AjSbotqAZTSd8RQSjA by [email protected] |
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@sabi 33.8, wasn't it? |
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Post #AjSc15ke72FDYEej4q by [email protected] |
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@sabi My parents bought an Apple Performa 550 that came with a Global Village T… |
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Post #AjSc3TmtiVz6g4qc8O by [email protected] |
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@sabiwhat does broadband with dialup speeds qualify as?like why did i have 2kbp… |
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Post #AjScigYN9vVC8uhaiW by [email protected] |
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@sabi I looked for my answer, but 19.2k wasn't on there |
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Post #AjSdDqc3oAPeJpHoh6 by [email protected] |
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@sabi The name rings a bell, but I'm not sure if I ever used one. |
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Post #AjT6TmoiaOg7qm9wLA by [email protected] |
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@sabi I had dual channel ISDN as well as early iDSL.But the real “fancy” ba… |
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Post #AjT7VB9Vh2RnZK72My by [email protected] |
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@sabi 110 |
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Post #AjT7i2Vj8MmYX1dX9M by [email protected] |
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@sabi I remember the luxury of being upgraded to 9600. My employer at the time… |
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Post #AjUrEjkoa8H70icSRs by [email protected] |
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@sabi @kkarhan In the 1990s ISDN was subsidized in Germany by the then state-ow… |
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Post #AjUrEkz20lF0p6HKFM by [email protected] |
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@bee8bit @sabi not only that but with the #HyTNAS the entire system was #ADSL A… |
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Post #AjXWCYcZUIewL8lLiS by [email protected] |
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@sabi I started with a 2400, but in my teens, I started finding ways to get on … |
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Post #AjYYgWldL4IkLPNcNU by [email protected] |
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@sabi @kiteless |
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Post #AjYYktwf6d99O5ckgy by [email protected] |
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@sabi I was one of the fortunate few able to borrow a terminal and 300 baud mod… |
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Post #AjYYvx9nVLfWXC2Plg by [email protected] |
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@sabi Kind of complicated because it was a US Robotics one that started as 28.8… |
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Post #AjYYzhs8H8z0HsZ65A by [email protected] |
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@sabi ... And you had to dial it by hand, both ways, in the snow! |
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Post #AjYZJNMQFKWKSp702C by [email protected] |
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@sabi My first was a Zyxel 14.4 modem, but a lightning strike damaged the elect… |
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Post #AjYZLG2GS4uoKBa3MG by [email protected] |
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@sabi 19.2 but that's missing in the list. Voted for 14.4 instead. |
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Post #AjZm8sKmEyCru3cqf2 by [email protected] |
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@sabi The real star was the Supra 14.4 I got under the sysop discount program -… |
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Post #AjZnDvkN4xhDtEZUBs by [email protected] |
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@sabi my mum, my sisters, and I, all kept the book we were currently reading by… |
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Post #AjZncQzSZJKRjuJU6C by [email protected] |
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@sabi My slowest modem, I think, came after my first, but I'm not fully sur… |
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Post #AjZntjtXXF9RIGnPLE by [email protected] |
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@sabi oh yeah if it rained the service point out the front would flood because … |
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Post #AjalHiHP5PPSWver1U by [email protected] |
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@sabi At 17% I feel like I slotted in perfectly to the “Old and wise, but not… |
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Post #Ajb9lz3ffNbe9gCZ3Q by [email protected] |
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@sabi Thank you for making me feel old. :clippy: |
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Post #AjbKA1fYbpcQkF1dmS by [email protected] |
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@sabi First modem was a Commodore 1660 for my C64 in 1985, then less than a yea… |
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Post #AjtlFGYWsp0TyEjwn2 by [email protected] |
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@sabi psYou skipped 150.And that wasn't the bottom. |
