[wellylug] External Modem

[pcreso at pcreso.com]

That's positively modern...

I started (as far as personal computers go -, Burroughs & PDP11's & such were even earlier) with an external homemade 300baud modem on a CP/M box with 64Mb RAM, then under DOS with 512K on a "turbo" 6Ghz 16bit cpu, well before Windows :-), then bought a super fast 2400 baud one a few years later... back when I bought a single speed CD in the US for a few hundred $$, as they were not yet available in NZ. Along with a 120Mb Conner hard drive a bit later for about $1300, because I couldn't get anything over  40Mb here :-) 

Back when FIDO & Usenet were high tech...

Ahhh... the good old days! back when Philippe Kahn & Bill Gates hadn't really got commercial software rolling :-) 


Brent

--- On Sat, 3/24/12, Glenn Morrissey <glennstuartmorrissey at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Glenn Morrissey <glennstuartmorrissey at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [wellylug] External Modem
To: "Wellington Linux Users Group" <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
Date: Saturday, March 24, 2012, 12:57 PM

Oh the good old days, windows 3.1, 14.4K modem, nearly no ram,
sharing a $60.00 per month dial up account....

On 3/24/12, Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 19:47 +1300, franck wrote:
>> I saw a 28.8k motorola modem for 20$ at the saint vincent de paul
>> second hand shop in newtown. 'don't know if it's a usb or serial
>> modem.
>
> Bwhahaa, oh wow, someone is kidding themselves there. :-)
>
> In semi-related news, I have a PCMCIA hardware dialup modem if anyone
> needs such an item.
>
> regards,
> jethro
>
> --
> Jethro Carr
> www.jethrocarr.com
> www.amberdms.com
>


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