First was a 2400, but we never used it. Later bought a 14.4, which I really consider the first one we really used a lot. Later got a 33.6 but it never connected more then 28.8.

I then remember the whole 56k mess. The X2 vs Kflex56 or what every they were called.

I remember when my small town finally got DSL it was a godsend to not have a second phone line and the modem on auto-redial. Later moved and got on Cable as it is the best broadband in town. What is weird is this all happened in the last 10 years.

My kids have no idea what a nightmare Dial-up was. We have 2 Wireless access points in the house and every room has about 3 Ethernet jacks so they just have internet everywhere. In the bedrooms, on the xbox, on the laptop in the kitchen or the bathroom. What is it going to be like in another 10 years... I wonder.

Hook up with your old BBS buddies here:

http://www.bbsmates.com

I found a few and even talked to one of them Pretty cool stuff if you're taking a stroll down memory lane.

Nothing like connecting to AOL+the internet on a 2400 baud modem (at 12-13 years old, for me) and downloading, uh, pictures.

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http://oldos.org

BBS's on a Total Telecommunications 64 300 baud modem for the C-64. Good times...

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I didn't get to vote. Is the vote time limited or what? Anyway my first modem was one that I found in a dumpster. It had a heating problem which I guess was the reason someone had thrown it away. So I could only use it for about 30-60 minutes before it overheated. But I solved that by simply putting a bag of ice cubes on its heat pipes. It was 1200 baud but I soon bought a Supra modem I think it was called, at 2400 bps. I had that one for years until I upgraded to a 14400 US Robotics I think it was called. The feeling of that speed increase was one of my childhoods happiest moments. I didn't have a lot of friends.

Today I have a 12/9 Mbps VDSL line and think it feels slow. I guess I will never get satisfied. I always fantasize about higher speeds.

28.8k. We used it with two phone lines to play warcraft against each other. ZUG ZUG

*Bump*

Sorry, couldn't resist this old thread; My First Modem was a Maplin Electronics kitset 300 baud modem.

There a nice picture here, except mine didn't have the kitset case, just a simple aluminium box, so it looked a lot less pretty than this example.

That got upgraded to a 1200/75 baud Miracle WS2000.

By then I had a heavy online habbit, primarily on CIX, which was like a UK version of BIX. It had the ability to download messages to your PC for reading off line, using a Off Line Reader, and I figured out that by stumping up a fortune for a faster then state of the art modem, 600 quid maybe for a Hayes 12200, and buying an OLR, I'd save money off the phone bill, and pay back the cost inside two years. I think I took out a loan for that modem...

Communication seemed a lot more exciting back then...

A 300 baud acoustic coupler he used to connect his terminal to the UC campus where he worked.

It was cool - you dial the phone number (rotary phone) and put the hand piece into the coupler.

I don't see his exact model - but this is what they looked like:

http://images.google.com/images?q=acoustic%20coupler

My first modem was a 1200/300 baud modem; a friend of mine and I used to wardial to try and find interesting BBS. Never got anywhere too interesting, except for one system that identified itself as a the remote gateway for the local Army Research Lab

My first was a 300 baud hooked up to a TRS-80 Model 1. I had built an Altair but never got it to do much. I sure wish I still had it!

I spent a lot of time on Compuserve using the TRS Model IV and Model 100. I still have a couple of Model 100s BTW, the original laptop!

I still have an old Intel 9600 modem in the closet. It must weigh three pounds. It was built like a tank.

Those were the days. I sure enjoyed visiting the BBS link in an earlier post.

Jeff

[quote="Asiadeep"]I started with a 14.4 man. [/quote]

+1

My first modem was a hayes compatible 1200 bps 'kinda external' for a Commodore 64. It plugged into the back of the C64 into one of it's proprietary 'slots'. The one thing I remember about that (besides it being only 40 column) as that the modem defaulted to auto answer (ats0=1 I think) after a power reset. So if we had a brown-out while I wasn't home, if the phoneline was still plugged into the modem, it would screech in anyones ear that called. My mom didn't like that much. My init string was of course ATS0=0.

I briefly had a regular external 2400 bps modem for my 8088. 80 columns wide baby, ya..

After that, I upgraded to a 14.4 USR sportster Internal for my PC. I think it was a 386 of some kind. Then I got a 486 that would run Doom. So I had to figure out the AT commands to disable error correction, flow control, etc on my modem, and all my friends modems. The USR was ATZ&K0&S0&M0 If I remember right. All my friends modems were non USR's, so were different.

An then there was forcing two modems to connect to each other when directly connected through a phone cord. Disable dial tone detection on one (forgot the command), then do "ATD", and on the other, simply ATA. Worked when I didn't have the stuff around to do a regular serial nul-modem connection.

Ahh, those were the days.

ATX0 ?

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Stephen
(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

My first modem was some kind of sound card with 300 baud capabilities. Somehow my dad hacked it up to 1200, I think.

Then a 2400 with MNP5, I forget the brand.
Then a Boca Research 2400 with v.42bis. Wow it was fast! Had it forever because 9600 modems were expensive and I was just a student.

Then I worked for an ISP and they gave me a v.Everything HST Courier they didn't need for some reason. I have it in a box somewhere, maybe I can sell it to wannabe Mark Zuckerberg.

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Mine was a 14.4k modem. I'm surprised that's not in the poll, it was a lot more common than some of the other speeds listed like 19.2k