• Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

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

    (I can still hear the different connection handshakes)

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      7 days 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

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      9 days 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…

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        9 days 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: