So I found an old Hayes Smartmodem (1200 baud)...

[TJN23]

oddly enough this old hunk of junk was lying around in one of the trash piles i had to bring to the loading dock...

so one of the janitors sees it and says (he was soo serious)

Him: "Hey! don't throw that out! I could use that!"
Me: "are you sure you can use it?"
Him: "oh yeah, this will work for my AOL"
Me: "But it's a 1200 baud"
Him: "No these things are fast, I can use my AOL on it and surf the net"
Me: "Ok suit yourself"

my laugh for the day

 

[T3C]

hehe

 

[MichaelD]

It is kind of funny how some folks think you can just haphazardly throw together some parts with some bailing wire and it'll all work.

 

[Gunslinger08]

He uses AOL.. nuff said.

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: MichaelD


It is kind of funny how some folks think you can just haphazardly throw together some parts with some bailing wire and it'll all work.

So you're saying MacGuyver is a fraud? :Q

 

[Ranger X]

Wow, that's old. My first modem was a 2400 baud, upgraded to a 14.4, then to a 28.8. I can't imagine using a 1200 baud now and having it bring up a webpage.

 

[emu10k2]

Tell him to get started with that new Win2K Sp4 download. Should be done mid-May of next year.

 

[blackdogdeek]

who could ever need a modem that fast?

 

[RossMAN]

I found an old 2400 baud the other day, not sure what I'm going to do with it.

 

[TJN23]

yeah using a 1200 baud on a BBS and having it display ASCII was painful enough...

 

[ThisIsMatt]

The thing is, he WON'T use it with AOL unless he goes back to AOL 3 or before, cause the newer versions won't connect at less than 9600 baud (unless they've changed something)...

 

[TJN23]

but how can he find drivers for it? its probably not supported post-win95

 

[emu10k2]

My first modem was a Radio Shack 300 baud. The text appeared in slow motion on the terminal, slower than walking speed

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Sadly enough, my current day modem has connected at 7200 baud (this is a 33.6 modem, but the phone lines can't do over 28.8 anyways). Talk about painful. I was wondering why ICQ caused IRC to lag.

 

[alkemyst]

I have a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 or 2400 somewhere that was sort cool, it plugged directly into the wall like a big wall wart.

When I used to do in home repairs/upgrades people were always pulling out the box of 80's hardware in attempts to intice me into a trade "Hey this video card (16 color) was about $200, your bill is $100..want to keep the difference?"

 

[123e443]

Do you know where and how i can contact that " janitor"?

 

[Captante]

I suspect he retired some years ago and has perhaps died.

 

[MtnMan]

My first modem was also 300 baud, that I paid $99 for. (Wouldn't pull the trigger on a modem until I could get one under $100). I think there were three BBS's locally. Ending up being a co-sysop for one of them.

Probably a year or so later, went hard core and got a Hayes 1200 baud. OMG, it was so damn fast!

 

[Red Squirrel]

US Robotics is the real deal. We all got one at our desk at work, so much better than having to remote into the 1 machine in the office that had a modem. They can do 1200 baud but most of the stuff we connect to seems to only do 300.

 

[dasherHampton]

Does anyone remember the modems that couldn't download a picture all at once?

They would draw a fuzzy version of it line by line and then do the same to make it sharp. How slow were those?

I was still fairly young playing around on my dad's PC.

 

[spacejamz]

I remember flashing this baby so she would get 56K speeds...pretty sure I have the adapter for it somewhere...

 

[PingSpike]

Does anyone remember the modems that couldn't download a picture all at once?

They would draw a fuzzy version of it line by line and then do the same to make it sharp. How slow were those?

I was still fairly young playing around on my dad's PC.

Pretty sure this has nothing to do with modems, its some sort of function of jpeg compression and I think the file had to be saved in the right kind of format to do it.

I really appreciated back in the day, you never knew what was going to be at the bottom of that jpeg until it was fully downloaded otherwise!

 

[ultimatebob]

I remember flashing this baby so she would get 56K speeds...pretty sure I have the adapter for it somewhere...
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I was able to update my old Lucent Winmodem from 28.8 all the way up to V.90 56K with just driver updates. I don't understand why people didn't like those things, the drivers for them were excellent.

 

[Captante]

I was able to update my old Lucent Winmodem from 28.8 all the way up to V.90 56K with just driver updates. I don't understand why people didn't like those things, the drivers for them were excellent.

I still own 2 ISA cards (hey I might need them!) ... 1 of which is an ancient and expensive at the time 56k US Robotics "Courier" modem... last modem I personally used.

 

[NutBucket]

I was able to update my old Lucent Winmodem from 28.8 all the way up to V.90 56K with just driver updates. I don't understand why people didn't like those things, the drivers for them were excellent.

Because they used precious CPU cycles at a time when they were not plentiful. I went from an ISA modem to a serial one at some point my mobo lost ISA slots or had some other issue? To be honest I don't recall.

The hot shit was the Diamond Dual-Shotgun or something like that. Dual 56k modems on a single ISA card. Talk about being baller back in the day.