High Speed Internet: 2400 baud

Ghryphen · 03-12-2004, 09:59 AM

Hehe was just reading over an old press release.

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

Quote:

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)

Maz · 03-13-2004, 03:27 AM

LOL

Variable · 03-13-2004, 04:25 AM

Much in the same vein:

http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-75-710-...ogy/computers/

Maz · 03-13-2004, 05:44 AM

haha, they make it sound so complex, and so weird, yet it was only 10 years ago

Gambit · 03-13-2004, 12:08 PM

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.

Aluscia · 03-13-2004, 12:44 PM

I wasn't a computer person then.... I probably wasn't even a person then

Maz · 03-14-2004, 03:16 AM

this is stuff that happen just over 10 years ago

Gambit · 03-15-2004, 06:44 AM

Maz, Laur meant my 300-baud acoustic coupler comment and compu-serv ads. That was twenty years ago.

Maz · 03-15-2004, 06:58 AM

... 20 years ago, yikes, I was barelly born

Aluscia · 03-15-2004, 07:07 AM

I'm 21, so my comment is accurate.

Maz · 03-15-2004, 08:10 AM

you would be 1

but I was'nt a computer person then either, I would of been 1 also

Stang · 03-15-2004, 11:25 AM

He's still a little slow today but we still lub 'em

Gambit · 03-15-2004, 12:21 PM

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.

Aluscia · 03-15-2004, 01:07 PM

Yeah, I remember inheiriting a Vic20 from someone, and then feeling powerful when I got a Commodore64

KitZune · 03-15-2004, 05:06 PM

I was a computer person when I was an itch it my dad's testies : D

LONG LIVE RAKURAI!

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Gambit Forum wh0re Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: DFW area, TX Posts: 744	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. __________________ XMEN member Card-carrying DTM OKL Fish-napper Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained. -The Tao of Programming Last edited by Gambit; 03-15-2004 at 12:28 PM.

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