I feel like the modem held on in laptops far too long. By the Windows 95 era, most modems were just weird sound cards that put most of the work onto the CPU to convert the data into sounds. They were dirt cheap, so laptop manufacturers could keep them there for the hell of it.
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pascal@lemm.ee 1 year agoA modem!? Does your ThinkPad also have an IR blaster? 🤣
frezik@midwest.social 1 year ago
naticus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh god I forgot those existed. They were always terrible, even for modem technology. I remember having to help my mom’s friend with her Emachine with one of those and the drivers were a trainwreck.
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mossheart@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Check what facts? No model number was provided. The ThinkPad spans decades. We don’t even know if this is an IBM era or Lenovo era Thinkpad.
toddestan@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That it has e-SATA would put it in the Lenovo-era, possibly one of the models that still had the IBM badging.
The the humor-impaired, there were also ThinkPads with an IrDA port too.
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 year ago
Or they were making a joke about ridiculous things that engineers were putting in all kinds of random devices for a while there and you got huffy about it.
We don’t know your life or what you know. And not all of us are memorizing old laptop models or care enough to look them up.
Conversation can be light and fun and not all pedantic technical documents like we’ve all been replaced by machines already
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not useful for most, but for some it’s irreplaceable. Just like the old serial port. For most people it feels archaic, but for industrial use it’s as present as USB is. ThinkPads cater to a huge audience, consisting mostly of technical people.