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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/41811290
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AT OK ATDT 555-1013 DIALING CONNECT 14400Crap, this is not the BBS I wanted to call... welp, might as well put something on the wall.
Greetings to the older folk on Lemmy!! :-)Fourteen forty? You ballin! My 4800 baud ain't got shit on you!
(I can still hear the different connection handshakes)
Maybe just as a flex, most times I tried connecting at 14400 it'd drop the call. Probably that's why I don't go for the greatest and latest tech purchases since then
Huh... TIL it was cooking itself lol
30 years late info
You mean dubstep progenitors?
I still have a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 here. Aluminum case and all. It's a work of art.
A useless work of art. But still...
I had to get rid of my US Robotics (freshly rebranded from... I can't remember?) 56k when I moved last time. Part of my soul was left with that modem.
This modem:
My 56k modem was internal, so not much to look at.
But the Hayes...
When you had some hella good shareware to download, it was always such a letdown to hear the scratchy line downshift to a lower speed trying to find a stable connection.
Hey, I played Last Call BBS, I get this reference!