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I love this website and thought this was funny.

Engadget

BTW, I used to work on Mac XL's (actually converted Lisa's) and pined for one of those discmans. My freshman college roommate had one of those petsters. yeah, he was an uber nerd. We only lasted one semester...

Sweet. Those ASCII graphics bring back memories of 300, 1200, and 2400 baud modems.

To funny, I remember when I used to cruise all the local bulletin boards back in the late 80's looking for cool games on my Tandy 1000. Man I thought I was king [censored] when I got that 2400 external modem

2400? I used to surf w/ my screaming 300 baud Prometheus on my Atari 800. Used to use those Trash80's in high school. They were even networked so we could use the single floppy drive from one computer... Loved the great placement of the reset button. Only an engineer who wants to reboot would do that. Maybe he went on to develop CTRL+ALT+DEL?

Ah.....seeing that Comodore 128 reminds me of my dear ol' Atari 130XE; about the same as the 128 although a bit slower.

Didn't care much for acoustic modems in those days.....not many good reasons to get one.....then

1200 baud was my start. Setup things to download before bed, went to sleep, and if I was lucky they were finished by morning. As long as the connection didn't drop during the night it was usually enough time to get everything.

Oh, I can beat all your stories on modem speed.

First modem was a 110 baud, and I had to write my own terminal program...

10 PRINTCHR$(147);
20 OPEN2,2,0,CHR$(7);CHR$(0);
30 GET#2,I$
40 PRINTI$;
50 GETJ$;
60 PRINT#2,J$;
70 GOTO30

Wow, look, ma, I remember my CBM BASIC V2.

I was also a Files Staffer on a C64 Files BBS... on a 300bps modem, had to download and check every upload and okay it.

Bren R.

Ah the memories.........

Ah,...memories indeed

My first computer; a Sperry Univac(not all mine, actually)had no screen,.....just flashing regesters, and ran so slowly that you could watch the regesters flash thru their sequencing, we "debugged" it by removing the actual bugs that would be eating the coating on the wires It was cool though; it was "Solid-State"! It had an associated piece of equipment that had a tube compiler that was even slower

Later; while working for Bryant Computer, we built a new, larger/faster disc drive. It was the size of a VW bug, had an environmental unit of the same size, ran with 36" oxide coated discs which would cause an actual "crash" when some of that oxide would flake off and cause the data heads to stop "flying".

It was a whopping 4.2GB

My first exposure was in jr high w/ a PET. We still used punch cards to set up class schedules too. back in '79...