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.
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
AT OK ATDT 555-1013 DIALING CONNECT 14400Greetings to the older folk on Lemmy!! :-)Hey, I played Last Call BBS, I get this reference!
Fourteen forty? You ballin! My 4800 baud ain’t got shit on you!
(I can still hear the different connection handshakes)
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.
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
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SupraFAXModem_14400
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…