Slowest Modem
What's the slowest modem you owned or used?
I can't remember the model of the TI that I had as a kid or the speed, but my buddy had a 50 baud, and another friend had a Tandy1000 with a 300 baud modem, I finally got a Epson-286 with a 1200 baud modem and dual 5.25 floppys. Before that the only computer access I really had was at the neighbors' or the Apple IIe at the Library (which I used all the time, to draw & play lod runner). FidoNet (software that) allowed BBS' to connect to each other at night to exchange info, was the closest thing to the internet, so I mostly just connected to BBS'. The BBS I co-sysoped at used Wildcat brand bbs software which allowed for multiple "doors" games, message boards, the fidonet mail system, and file downloads, .gif was the most popular image format by this time. Later, 2400 baud modems hit store shelves, Prodigy and AOL came to town then 4800 baud modems... then I enlisted in the Army in '93 and had very little (non work related) computer access for 4 year's. When I got out the "internet" was pretty mature but still evolving.
ps
Remember Clinton's I2 proposal!
I can't remember the model of the TI that I had as a kid or the speed, but my buddy had a 50 baud, and another friend had a Tandy1000 with a 300 baud modem, I finally got a Epson-286 with a 1200 baud modem and dual 5.25 floppys. Before that the only computer access I really had was at the neighbors' or the Apple IIe at the Library (which I used all the time, to draw & play lod runner). FidoNet (software that) allowed BBS' to connect to each other at night to exchange info, was the closest thing to the internet, so I mostly just connected to BBS'. The BBS I co-sysoped at used Wildcat brand bbs software which allowed for multiple "doors" games, message boards, the fidonet mail system, and file downloads, .gif was the most popular image format by this time. Later, 2400 baud modems hit store shelves, Prodigy and AOL came to town then 4800 baud modems... then I enlisted in the Army in '93 and had very little (non work related) computer access for 4 year's. When I got out the "internet" was pretty mature but still evolving.
ps
Remember Clinton's I2 proposal!
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probably the one my dad had on his old mac 0 -
I worked for Burrought Corp. on main frame computers in 1980.
We had hundreds of 300 baud modems.
There were 2 full time guys at the Trident sub base that did nothing but service on 300 baud modems.
The first floppy disk I ever saw was a 12".
I just called Comcast to ask if they had upgraded their speed.
I'm getting 10M download regularly now.
The good old days weren't really all that good.
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the slowest modem i ever had was called a 'no'dem. i could never figure out why it kept quitting.
heck, the one that just blew up was still using rotary dial up.0 -
Heck, I only get 28k on a good day now.
Commodore 64 had only 300 baud.0 -
28.8, then 56k. Now Cable. I'm never goin back. 0 -
I don't know the baud rate but I'm sure it was slow.
Our high school had a teletype terminal with the type of modem where you had to dial the phone (literally dial not push button) and then place the handset on the modem.
This was the mid 70's. We were connecting to a PDP 1145.0 -
...Dial-up is at 33.6. Used to regularly get 48, until they "cleaned and upgraded" my interface box. Out here, there's no wireless, no fiber optic, no cable. 0 -
300 baud coupler style modem on a trs-80. still have my trs-80 boot disks, manual, my C64 CP/M module/manual, a z80 assembler manual, all sorts of good stuff. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by iwannausername
300 baud coupler style modem on a trs-80. still have my trs-80 boot disks, manual, my C64 CP/M module/manual, a z80 assembler manual, all sorts of good stuff.
[:D][:D][:D]
Remember when you used to have to take the hand set from the old style phones and put it ON the modem?
40 meg HD was about $6000 -
We Amish are forbidden to have modems. 0 -
Didnt have a hard drive until my 286. 10 meg, 1mb ram, both 3.5 and 5 1/4 disk drives. Had a Tandy 8088, the C64, and the TRS80 before that.
quote:Originally posted by FrancF
quote:Originally posted by iwannausername
300 baud coupler style modem on a trs-80. still have my trs-80 boot disks, manual, my C64 CP/M module/manual, a z80 assembler manual, all sorts of good stuff.
[:D][:D][:D]
Remember when you used to have to take the hand set from the old style phones and put it ON the modem?
40 meg HD was about $6000 -
quote:Originally posted by iwannausername
Didnt have a hard drive until my 286. 10 meg, 1mb ram, both 3.5 and 5 1/4 disk drives. Had a Tandy 8088, the C64, and the TRS80 before that.
quote:Originally posted by FrancF
quote:Originally posted by iwannausername
300 baud coupler style modem on a trs-80. still have my trs-80 boot disks, manual, my C64 CP/M module/manual, a z80 assembler manual, all sorts of good stuff.
[:D][:D][:D]
Remember when you used to have to take the hand set from the old style phones and put it ON the modem?
40 meg HD was about $600
TRS-80 the (Trash-80!)[:D][:D]
PCLINK that is now AOL[:0][:p][:D]0 -
I have got dsl. Don't know what its speed is rated at, But it loads all my pages in under 2 seconds.
So i am happy.[:)]0 -
My first computer was a Hyundai 286 that I bought for $20.00 at a yard sale -- with a screen burned (but color) monitor. It had some kind of modem in it, probably a 28.8, and an old Sound blaster sound card. Ran into a guy that had a lot of old RAM laying around, and he put it in the thing -- but it was still to slow to get on the internet. I primarily used it to play Tetris. In 1997 I decided to get serious about getting on the net and bought a 386 Compaq rig and printer; it had a 52K modem -- and after awhile I ended up with cable. 0 -
Still using a 1200 baud for some pieces of equipment.[:)] 0 -
14 4 so slow i could actually try to open a web page, mow the lawn trim the hedges, go to the hardware store, have a shower, eat some lunch come back and it still wasnt done. man i miss the good old times
14 4, 28 8, 56k, then cable. cant imagine going in the opposite direction now.0
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