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Willdrick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AT OK ATDT 555-1013 DIALING CONNECT 14400
Crap, this is not the BBS I wanted to call… welp, might as well put something on the wall.
Greetings to the older folk on Lemmy!! :-)
Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Fourteen forty? You ballin! My 4800 baud ain’t got shit on you!
(I can still hear the different connection handshakes)
limelight79@lemm.ee 2 months 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…
Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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 2 months ago
My 56k modem was internal, so not much to look at.
But the Hayes…
stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You mean dubstep progenitors?
wjrii@lemmy.world 2 months 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.