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Paul Lara
{K:81643} 4/10/2004
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Dude! It's a cradle modem!!
Those bad boys were so slow, you'd read the text as it was downloaded to the screen.
(Paul begins humming "Memories" at this point...)
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Brian Rueger
{K:7285} 4/10/2004
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Fer sure. You could go the the bathroom or make a sandwich while you were waiting for the screen to load.
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Andy Pollard
{K:1341} 4/10/2004
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An acoustic coupler...what baud is it 75, 300, 1200. I remember my first 300b modem that cost somewhere around 400 bucks.
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Timothy R
{K:2956} 4/10/2004
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Wow. it's a flashback to my first days of computing. Perhaps a 150 acustic Baud mode? Back when I had a dial up - that truly was a dial up. Rotary dial that is. It was part of an IBM portable that had a 5 inch screen, weighed about 25 pounds and had a panel on the back that flipped open to show a modem like this.
Thanks for the flashback!
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Timothy R
{K:2956} 4/10/2004
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Oh yeah. The old man in me has kicked in...
And we were happy for it!
Whew, I feel so much better now!
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Bill Ciavarra
{K:10183} 4/12/2004
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yep, a flash back..my first modem was a 300 baud for the old C-64
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Gary Holland
{K:53} 4/15/2004
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Yup it sure does bring back memories. I never had one of those babies but did have a Hayes 1200 baud external serial modem hooked up to a 8086 machine, 2 5 1/4 floppies, no hard drive! I think I like my dsl! Thanks for the ride down memory lane, nice shot!
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Sean D.
{K:2361} 4/29/2004
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It almost looks antique, must be 25 years old.
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Fred Lord
{K:4790} 5/1/2004
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Brian: I never had one but weren't they rated in the single figures for speed? I did have one that ran at 300 baud.
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Guido Tweepenninckx
{K:16571} 5/13/2004
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Brian,lol
looks like a telephone .
regards Guido............this is fun
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