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Old 03-12-2004, 08:59 AM   #1
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Hehe was just reading over an old press release.

http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts/2400modem88.html

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The price reductions are impressive, but the real significance lies in the technololgy that has made it possible. Integrated circuit chips incorporating all the electronic elements of a modem are now being produced in huge quantities for these high-speed modems, which operate at a transmission speed of 2400 baud (about 240 characters per second)
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Much in the same vein:

http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-75-710-...ogy/computers/
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haha, they make it sound so complex, and so weird, yet it was only 10 years ago
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I still have my original 2400 baud modem. It's an external, Zoom brand. Bought it in 1991 just as the 9600 bauds were starting to come out (and so I could get it cheap - $70 mail-order).

And all Zoom modems came with a 7-year warranty.

I remember being a young kid reading CompuServ advertisements and coveting a 300-baud acoustic-coupler modem. Those old Timex-Sinclair kits (and just Sinclair before Timex bought 'em). Ah, nostalgia.
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I wasn't a computer person then.... I probably wasn't even a person then
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this is stuff that happen just over 10 years ago
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Maz, Laur meant my 300-baud acoustic coupler comment and compu-serv ads. That was twenty years ago.
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... 20 years ago, yikes, I was barelly born
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I'm 21, so my comment is accurate.
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you would be 1 but I was'nt a computer person then either, I would of been 1 also
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Heh. You young whippersnappers...

http://oldcomputers.net/ts1000.html
Sinclair ZX-81. Popular from about 1981-1983. I saw "build-your-own" kits advertised, but didn't have the hundred bucks I needed. The thing came with two whole K of memory, y'know, and half of that was for the display...

http://oldcomputers.net/ti994.html
I did manage to scrape up a couple hundred for a used TI-99/4 - my first computer! - in '81. I was in sixth grade. The first things I bought to go with it were the "Extended Basic" cartridge (more powerful programming), and a dungeon hack game called "Tunnels of Doom," for which modules had to be loaded from tape. I still have the programming manuals for the thing. If you scroll down, you can see the TI-Modem acoustic coupler I was talking about wanting. 300 baud of telecommunicating goodness! I also borrowed the mini-memory cartridge (for assembly programming) and the speech synthesizer at various times.

http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/index/ Compute! magazine of the early 80's. Source of many CompuServ (and other) ads.

If you guys were born in '83, you share that year with the venerated Commodore 64. I didn't own one of those until '85 or so. Wonderful machine, lots of personality.
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Yeah, I remember inheiriting a Vic20 from someone, and then feeling powerful when I got a Commodore64
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I was a computer person when I was an itch it my dad's testies : D

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