• Willdrick@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago
    AT
OK
ATDT 555-1013
DIALING
CONNECT 14400

    Crap, this is not the BBS I wanted to call… welp, might as well put something on the wall.

    Greetings to the older folk on Lemmy!!
:-)
    • Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      0·
      2 months ago

      Fourteen forty? You ballin! My 4800 baud ain’t got shit on you!

      (I can still hear the different connection handshakes)

      • Willdrick@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        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

      • limelight79@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 months ago

        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…

        • Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          2 months ago

          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: