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[kali25]

First was a 2400, but we never used it. Later bought a 14.4, which I really consider the first one we really used a lot. Later got a 33.6 but it never connected more then 28.8.

I then remember the whole 56k mess. The X2 vs Kflex56 or what every they were called.

I remember when my small town finally got DSL it was a godsend to not have a second phone line and the modem on auto-redial. Later moved and got on Cable as it is the best broadband in town. What is weird is this all happened in the last 10 years.

My kids have no idea what a nightmare Dial-up was. We have 2 Wireless access points in the house and every room has about 3 Ethernet jacks so they just have internet everywhere. In the bedrooms, on the xbox, on the laptop in the kitchen or the bathroom. What is it going to be like in another 10 years... I wonder.

[A32]

Hook up with your old BBS buddies here:

http://www.bbsmates.com

I found a few and even talked to one of them :-) Pretty cool stuff if you're taking a stroll down memory lane.

[Jay]

Nothing like connecting to AOL+the internet on a 2400 baud modem (at 12-13 years old, for me) and downloading, uh, pictures.

;)

[opello]

BBS's on a Total Telecommunications 64 300 baud modem for the C-64. Good times...

[harmone]

I didn't get to vote. Is the vote time limited or what? Anyway my first modem was one that I found in a dumpster. It had a heating problem which I guess was the reason someone had thrown it away. So I could only use it for about 30-60 minutes before it overheated. But I solved that by simply putting a bag of ice cubes on its heat pipes. It was 1200 baud but I soon bought a Supra modem I think it was called, at 2400 bps. I had that one for years until I upgraded to a 14400 US Robotics I think it was called. The feeling of that speed increase was one of my childhoods happiest moments. I didn't have a lot of friends.

Today I have a 12/9 Mbps VDSL line and think it feels slow. I guess I will never get satisfied. I always fantasize about higher speeds.

[cz9qvh]

28.8k. We used it with two phone lines to play warcraft against each other. ZUG ZUG

[dbuckley]

*Bump*

Sorry, couldn't resist this old thread; My First Modem was a Maplin Electronics kitset 300 baud modem.

There a nice picture here, except mine didn't have the kitset case, just a simple aluminium box, so it looked a lot less pretty than this example.

That got upgraded to a 1200/75 baud Miracle WS2000.

By then I had a heavy online habbit, primarily on CIX, which was like a UK version of BIX. It had the ability to download messages to your PC for reading off line, using a Off Line Reader, and I figured out that by stumping up a fortune for a faster then state of the art modem, 600 quid maybe for a Hayes 12200, and buying an OLR, I'd save money off the phone bill, and pay back the cost inside two years. I think I took out a loan for that modem...

Communication seemed a lot more exciting back then...

[FunkyRes]

A 300 baud acoustic coupler he used to connect his terminal to the UC campus where he worked.

It was cool - you dial the phone number (rotary phone) and put the hand piece into the coupler.

I don't see his exact model - but this is what they looked like:

http://images.google.com/images?q=acoustic%20coupler

[mikeage]

My first modem was a 1200/300 baud modem; a friend of mine and I used to wardial to try and find interesting BBS. Never got anywhere too interesting, except for one system that identified itself as a the remote gateway for the local Army Research Lab ;)