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Willdrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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OK
ATDT 555-1013
DIALING
CONNECT 14400

Greetings to the older folk on Lemmy!!
:-)

• Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Fourteen forty? You ballin! My 4800 baud ain’t got shit on you!

  (I can still hear the different connection handshakes)

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  • limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I still have a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 here. Aluminum case and all. It’s a work of art.

    A useless work of art. But still…

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    • Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I had to get rid of my US Robotics (freshly rebranded from… I can’t remember?) 56k when I moved last time. Part of my soul was left with that modem.

      This modem:

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      • limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        My 56k modem was internal, so not much to look at.

        But the Hayes…

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  • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You mean dubstep progenitors?

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  • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    When you had some hella good shareware to download, it was always such a letdown to hear the scratchy line downshift to a lower speed trying to find a stable connection.

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