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

[Red Squirrel]

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.

I still use one of those at work fairly regularly. When you work in telecom you get to use the latest and greatest tech.

 

[kt]

I remember working at a law office where our internet access is shared through a single 56K modem using a software called WinGate.

 

[Captante]

I still use one of those at work fairly regularly. When you work in telecom you get to use the latest and greatest tech.

Yep ... the internal version of that.

Freaking thing essentially has an old land-line telephone hand-set speaker built right on the card.

 

[PingSpike]

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.

I remember playing Unreal Tournament and the best player was rocking shotgunned 56K. There were lpb around that time of course. My modem only did 28.8K on a good day and hitscan weapons were pretty much right out for me.

 

[NutBucket]

Ah, the gold old days of playing UT...back when I actually was a psuedo gamer LOL

Dual modems, Dual Voodoo2s...seems like everything was in parallel!

 

[Craig234]

The slowest modem I ever used was 110 baud. Then 300 for a long time, you could type faster as I recall. But the whole idea of remote electronic transmission of data was pretty amazing. People would rack up hundreds of dollars a month phone bills calling even 'toll areas' in the same area code BBS's.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow did not know yo could go lower than 300 lol. Lot of the stuff we connect to at work is 300 and yeah you can type faster lmao.

 

[MtnMan]

The slowest modem I ever used was 110 baud. Then 300 for a long time, you could type faster as I recall. But the whole idea of remote electronic transmission of data was pretty amazing. People would rack up hundreds of dollars a month phone bills calling even 'toll areas' in the same area code BBS's.

I forget the name of the service, but I subscribed for several years. I could dial into a local modem, then link to modems in different cities (major cities), and take control of a modem on that end. Had to use Hayes modem commands (ADTD with phone#) and could connect to a BBS in that city. Being from a town with 3 BBS's, one of them lame, this was great. This was when 9600 baud was as good as it got.

damn, I'm old.

 

[Captante]

The slowest modem I can remember having personally was 110 baud I think... first half-decent modem for internet use was a US Robotics 9600 (?) baud.

I recall my JHS computer club had one of the phone handset cradle modems to connect to the mainframe at the HS. No idea what it was rated for.