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Caution - very addictive, and glorious obsolete tech. Also full of mystery. First time I've read one was 1995 on some BBS.

dfsegoat 8y ago
97ish here... re: BBS' - still have my US Robotics 28.8 external modem...
- _0ffh 8y ago
  USR? Reeeee! (Zyxel user here ;-) My /first/ modem though was a "Lightspeed 1200" from some company who's name I forget. You can guess how many bps that one could sling...
- wiz21c 8y ago
  USR, that was the rolls royce of modem back then. Aaaahh the sound it made.
  - squarefoot 8y ago
    And the fortune it cost. My Amiga based local BBS had a pile of them and most online fellows had one while I couldn't even afford a Zyxel but had to connect through a terrible 2400bps unknown name one. Thankfully it had at least Zmodem which was almost new then. Good ol' times...
    - C1sc0cat 8y ago
      I can recall when 2400 was the new hotness and getting a hooky prototype 2400 from a colleague at Telecom Gold. I think he used on of them on his FIDO BBS (Arkham Asylum)
  - 1001101 8y ago
    That was the HST modulation training. Gets me every time. Wish I still had my courier dual just for the sound ;)
  - thelittleone 8y ago
    Here's a USR modem recording for the daily nostalgia hit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR5n8R10iAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR5n8R10iAM
    - emersonrsantos 8y ago
      That sound and the CRT screen brings back memories...
- potta_coffee 8y ago
  Same year, same modem! Miss the 90's.
- ataturk 8y ago
  Wow, uh, '97 was kind of the end of the road for most of that kind of stuff. I used BBSes in the '80s, but as soon as I got to college and onto the pre-WWW Internet I never visited another BBS again. Hacking UNIX and VMS systems was way more fun. I also got into a whole peck of trouble with credit cards and lock picking. Oh, also, Warez. And lots of other shit. I pretty much abused everything the squares hold dear and lived to tell about it. And wouldn't have done it any differently except for getting caught.
- brokenmachine 8y ago
  Look at Mr High Falutin' 28.8 over here... I picked up a secondhand 300 baud modem for my Commodore 64 when I went to someone's house to buy some games. It was like some kind of mysterious magic when I actually connected to a BBS. Later my parents got the long-distance phone bill... And my fun was somewhat dampened.

dfsegoat 8y ago

97ish here... re: BBS' - still have my US Robotics 28.8 external modem...

_0ffh 8y ago
USR? Reeeee! (Zyxel user here ;-) My /first/ modem though was a "Lightspeed 1200" from some company who's name I forget. You can guess how many bps that one could sling...
wiz21c 8y ago
USR, that was the rolls royce of modem back then. Aaaahh the sound it made.
- squarefoot 8y ago
  And the fortune it cost. My Amiga based local BBS had a pile of them and most online fellows had one while I couldn't even afford a Zyxel but had to connect through a terrible 2400bps unknown name one. Thankfully it had at least Zmodem which was almost new then. Good ol' times...
  - C1sc0cat 8y ago
    I can recall when 2400 was the new hotness and getting a hooky prototype 2400 from a colleague at Telecom Gold. I think he used on of them on his FIDO BBS (Arkham Asylum)
- 1001101 8y ago
  That was the HST modulation training. Gets me every time. Wish I still had my courier dual just for the sound ;)
- thelittleone 8y ago
  Here's a USR modem recording for the daily nostalgia hit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR5n8R10iAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR5n8R10iAM
  - emersonrsantos 8y ago
    That sound and the CRT screen brings back memories...
potta_coffee 8y ago
Same year, same modem! Miss the 90's.
ataturk 8y ago
Wow, uh, '97 was kind of the end of the road for most of that kind of stuff. I used BBSes in the '80s, but as soon as I got to college and onto the pre-WWW Internet I never visited another BBS again. Hacking UNIX and VMS systems was way more fun. I also got into a whole peck of trouble with credit cards and lock picking. Oh, also, Warez. And lots of other shit. I pretty much abused everything the squares hold dear and lived to tell about it. And wouldn't have done it any differently except for getting caught.
brokenmachine 8y ago
Look at Mr High Falutin' 28.8 over here... I picked up a secondhand 300 baud modem for my Commodore 64 when I went to someone's house to buy some games. It was like some kind of mysterious magic when I actually connected to a BBS. Later my parents got the long-distance phone bill... And my fun was somewhat dampened.