Beej Jorgensen ( @beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ) 6•1 year agoC64 VICModem. 300 baud, manual dial. :)
funchords ( @funchords@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•1 year agoThat was my first one as well.
My first PC modem was the US Robotics Sportster 14400 FAX Modem. A cool feature was that you could flip a couple of bits and it would do 19200. USR reportedly grumbled about that breaking the warranty and using it against its design limits, but it worked great.
boomboxnation ( @boomboxnation@lemmy.ca ) 6•1 year agoHayes 1200. Anyone know why these things were built to be bombproof? Always kinda wondered about that…
colournoun ( @colournoun@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago300 baud C64
xmanmonk ( @xmanmonk@lemmy.sdf.org ) 6•1 year ago300 baud home made.
I, Mekon ( @imekon@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•1 year ago300baud from work. Fun times logging in with it. Eventually moved to 2400baud.
marv99 ( @marv99@feddit.de ) 4•1 year agoMy first modem was a Dataphone s21 (German Akustikkoppler) for the Commodore C64. It gave me breath-taking 300 baud on the data highway (aka boards).
lonlazarus ( @lonlazarus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 4•1 year agoMy brother had an acoustic coupled 300 baud modem for his C64, but that stuff was off limits to me. My first was a 2400 baud on ISA card, I bought for the family IBM XT Clone when I was maybe 13, I came up with the money with a hustle. I bought an old lionel train set at a garage sale with $20, sold it to a train shop for $100 (they probably screwed me over). It was my first pc component install, I remember setting the dip switches for the IRQ channel.
I don’t know the model, but my first modem was 2400 baud
Downloading anything took forever but it was still a magical experience to me!
I couldn’t figure out how to silence the modem sounds either (if it was even possible) so every time I wanted to use the computer when someone in the house was sleeping I had to pray the connection sounds wouldn’t wake anyone up!
Beej Jorgensen ( @beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•1 year agoATL0
orATM0
should have silenced it. Unfortunately I had to use the Internet to look that up. :)saving this for when time travel is invented so I can go back and tell my younger self, my mother would appreciate it!
mnrockclimber ( @mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org ) 4•1 year agoSupra 2400, to LineLink 144E, to Practical Peripherals 28.8 (all of these external). Being a kid I was limited to upgrading when birthday and holiday money was saved up.
To one way broadband with this weird box containing a 56kbps modem you plugged a phone cord into for the uplink and a 1.5mbps downlink over cable coax. Bi directional broadband wasnt available yet.
jdlahmann ( @jdlahmann@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•1 year agoFirst one that I had myself was a 300 baud acoustic modem. It came in a wooden box that was about the size of a shoe box but more square.
jmcunx ( @jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•1 year ago2400 on a 386SX IIRC, I was late to the game. I started connecting when I moved to Coherent OS from DOS. I used kermit to dial into work. Work would then call back so I would avoid any charges:)
They had USENET on a SUNOS plus I could download source for items I wanted.
davefischer ( @davefischer@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year agoI ran Coherent on a 286 for a few years. Had a usenet feed. Replaced that with a 3B2.
MayorMcCheese ( @MayorMcCheese@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year agoCommodore 300 baud
Frater Mus ( @fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•1 year agoAcoustic-coupling modem for a TI 99/4a. 300 baud?
dllama ( @dllama@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•1 year agoA thoroughly obsolete 1200bps Racal-Vadic thing that didn’t do the Hayes command set. Its command set was sufficiently different to AT that I couldn’t configure my terminal program to control it, so I’d pick up the phone, dial whichever BBS I wanted to call, wait for the beep, push the connect button on the modem’s front panel, and put down the phone.
I think it was sufficiently obsolete that the BBSes I called would have had 9600bps or 14.4kbps modems by then.
Found the manual! https://usermanual.wiki/m/e841e449995c65b1eb3d261c6cec7d97d5b42039de6114e9fed37628782b868a.pdf
- wxboss ( @wxboss@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•1 year ago
Mine was a 300/1200 baud modem which if memory serves correctly ran mostly @ 300.