[wellylug] External Modem

[Jeremy Naylor]

At 17:25 24/03/2012, you wrote:
>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 :-)

Hey Brent and all,

Hey!

Don't use that kind of language around here please! :P ;)

>Brent

Cheers,

Jeremy Naylor
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