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I remember US Robotics being a big modem brand, considered a good brand if I recall correctly
by quickthrower2 5y ago
I remember US Robotics being a big modem brand, considered a good brand if I recall correctly
- watersb 5y agoOh yes US Robotics modems were some of the first consumer modems to get data throughput above 9600 bits per second. They also created a weird but very interesting computer designed by some guy named Jeff Hawkins. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_(PDA) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_(PDA) Which, come to think of it, is my pick for Interesting Computer. Very fun to program, a couple of extensions to turn the Notepad into a Wiki (we would call it a Zettlekasten now, I suppose). The initial API was very much like Macintosh C programming.
- blooalien 5y agoI remember when US Robotics sent out a buncha 56K modems for a dime to 33.6K modem owners. Loved US Robotics before that, but loved 'em even more after that. :)