What was the speed of your first modem? - GoFuckYourself.com

Joe Citizen · 08-27-2004, 07:48 PM

So tell us all about your first modem.

Mine was a 300 baud homemade job by the local computer users group from 1985 that hooked up to my Commodore 64.

aaron · 08-27-2004, 07:51 PM

i had a 14.4 and i always remember being jealous of my friends 28.8

BradM · 08-27-2004, 07:51 PM

9600 on local free dialup service. Was sweet.

Turboface · 08-27-2004, 07:55 PM

I got my first modem for my Atari 800 many moons ago. I remember when they came out with the 1200 baud modem and I thought to myself, 'Wow, it can't get too much faster than this!'.

VirtuMike · 08-27-2004, 07:57 PM

110 baud acoustic coupler dumb terminal connecting to a pdp-11 at my dad's office.

Adventure ruled.

XYZZY4L

sickkittens · 08-27-2004, 07:59 PM

2400. God, I thought I was so cool being on the internet.

EviLGuY · 08-27-2004, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Joe Citizen
So tell us all about your first modem.

Mine was a 300 baud homemade job by the local computer users group from 1985 that hooked up to my Commodore 64.

I had one of those ones you plug the handset of the old style phone into.

That sucked.. so after a while i got a 300 bps modem for my commodore.. was a bit faster, but still slower then I could read.

rowan · 08-27-2004, 08:02 PM

My first did 1200bps down, 75bps up. It was reasonably fast for viewing text or even downloading small files, but it was impossible trying to upload anything! (75bps = 7.5 characters per second)

bignasty · 08-27-2004, 08:05 PM

I remebered seeing a 2400 bps modem at walmart I couldn't afford. Then the 3600 bps modems came out and they marked all the 2400's down to about $20 and I got one. Things have come along way since.

Gheenz · 08-27-2004, 08:07 PM

You forgot to add 33.6 to the poll; which is the first one I can remember using.

Doctor Dre · 08-27-2004, 08:08 PM

dready · 08-27-2004, 08:10 PM

Mine was a 300 baud 'mighty mo' for my Commodore 64. Today I just upgraded to extreme high speed... 600K (5Mbit) downloads, 80K (800Kbit) uploads.

bjjb · 08-27-2004, 08:12 PM

2400 and trying to download pron from aol woohooooooooooo I rocked!

chodadog · 08-27-2004, 08:14 PM

56k, i think. Or maybe it was 28.8. One of those, though.

exposed · 08-27-2004, 08:15 PM

I remember pimpin tha 9600 baud on Compuserve paying $8/hr to be online.

lb_vee · 08-27-2004, 08:20 PM

My first was a 1200 baud, I remember downloading Wolfenstein 3D...took an hour and a half for about half a meg.

swoop · 08-27-2004, 08:21 PM

28.8 and I was living large back in the day

Spunky · 08-27-2004, 08:21 PM

psyko514 · 08-27-2004, 08:23 PM

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Originally posted by NickHimself
You forgot to add 33.6 to the poll; which is the first one I can remember using.

same here.

Vitasoy · 08-27-2004, 08:24 PM

I think it was 28.8 can't really remember, but it was dial up :p

detoxed · 08-27-2004, 08:24 PM

14.4, always envied the kid who had a 36.6 and 64 megs of ram. lol. I had computers long before that though

gornyhuy · 08-27-2004, 08:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Joe Citizen
So tell us all about your first modem.

Mine was a 300 baud homemade job by the local computer users group from 1985 that hooked up to my Commodore 64.

Same basic story - I cranked that 300 baud baby up to 450 smoking bps!!!!!!

gornyhuy · 08-27-2004, 08:59 PM

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Originally posted by VirtuMike
110 baud acoustic coupler dumb terminal connecting to a pdp-11 at my dad's office.

Adventure ruled.

XYZZY4L

Thats fucking hard CORE!

I learned my first assembly language on the pdp-11 on the university mainframe!

Illicit · 08-27-2004, 09:00 PM

I ran a bbs off a 2400 baud modem

Serge Litehead · 08-27-2004, 09:06 PM

2400 in '92, took me a long time to figure out how it works - jumpers, ati commands, x/z modem protocols
then i bbsed shit out of it

Marcus Aurelius · 08-27-2004, 09:07 PM

had a commodore 64 way back in the day, had a 2400 baud modem in it. I forget what the net service it used was, but it was the shit back in the day. We've certainly come a long way.

D-man · 08-27-2004, 09:09 PM

my first harddrive was a tape recorder

kmanrox · 08-27-2004, 09:11 PM

is there such thing as a 200baud ? i think that or a 120 is what i first used... and yes d-man, i remember the tape recorder drives... i also remember using a cartidge to load software to my new TI-1000

hottshot · 08-27-2004, 09:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Joe Citizen
So tell us all about your first modem.

Mine was a 300 baud homemade job by the local computer users group from 1985 that hooked up to my Commodore 64.

I had the same set up !

Serge Litehead · 08-27-2004, 09:14 PM

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Originally posted by D-man
my first harddrive was a tape recorder

i remember those, friend of mine had one 80x, we used to cut school to play on his comp, 5min of reading tape to load something like 16-128K into ram, can't remember exact numbers now

Dagwolf · 08-27-2004, 09:52 PM

My first one was a 1200.. I voted 2400, though.

I had the TI-994a with a tape recorder too. Who could resist a $99 pc back then?

Evil1 · 08-27-2004, 09:58 PM

300 baud on a vic 20 with absolutely nowhere at all to call... this was back in the day when you had to copy the code of a game in basic out of a magazine to play it.

10: print "this sucks"
20: goto 10;

Serge Litehead · 08-27-2004, 10:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Evil1
300 baud on a vic 20 with absolutely nowhere at all to call... this was back in the day when you had to copy the code of a game in basic out of a magazine to play it.

10: print "this sucks"
20: goto 10;

OMG

TexasDreams · 08-27-2004, 10:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Joe Citizen
So tell us all about your first modem.

Mine was a 300 baud homemade job by the local computer users group from 1985 that hooked up to my Commodore 64.

First modem was 300-baud using an acoustic coupler (telephone handset laying into big rubber pieces) on a Cormemco System 1, around mid 1982. The Cromemco was my first "store-bought" computer, had a number of handwired systems before that dating back to early 1977 but they didn't have modems. I'm old school.

DirkG · 08-27-2004, 10:20 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Joe Citizen
So tell us all about your first modem.

Mine was a 300 baud homemade job by the local computer users group from 1985 that hooked up to my Commodore 64.

You're not from Eugene Oregon are you? Maybe I helped make it.

TexasDreams · 08-27-2004, 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kmanrox
is there such thing as a 200baud ? i think that or a 120 is what i first used... and yes d-man, i remember the tape recorder drives... i also remember using a cartidge to load software to my new TI-1000

120-baud was the original standard. First programming I did was on punch cards and paper tape where it had to be uploaded to a remote mainframe to compile and test. Damn, that makes me feel old.

pornguy · 08-27-2004, 10:29 PM

First I had a vic 20, because I could not afford a 64,

then later my first pc that would connect to the net was an IBM PS1 with a 14.4

SleazeQueen · 08-28-2004, 01:30 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by VirtuMike
110 baud acoustic coupler dumb terminal connecting to a pdp-11 at my dad's office.

Adventure ruled.

XYZZY4L

Ah my youth!

My dad had this phone at home that was hooked up to a huge computer in our house. I don't remember, some sort of Vax machine or something. You'd pick up the phone, dial the number, listen for the screech and then lift up this button where you usually hung up the phone. Then you set the receiver on the desk until you were done.

After that came the BBS years. Stories too ugly to share, including my first foray into the alt.sex newsgroups and learning about things I'd never even heard of before.

Then the Compuserve years. I think I was up to 1200 baud by then though. Was a sysop there for a long time until they dragged me kicking and screaming onto that thing called the World Web or something.

We were just talking the other day about how exicted I was to get a new computer.. an 8086 with a whopping 40 meg HD. My hubby just went to replace a 10gig drive on a computer and work and found out you can't buy them that small at most stores anymore. LOL! That's just sad.

Manowar · 08-28-2004, 01:31 AM

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Originally posted by Doctor Dre
14.4

MrJackMeHoff · 08-28-2004, 01:32 AM

WTF you dont have 1200 in there!

smack · 08-28-2004, 01:35 AM

1200 baud

VirtuMike · 08-28-2004, 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Evil1

10: print "this sucks"
20: goto 10;

I think this would generate a syntax error in 20 on a vic.

I think you couldn't use ; at the end of a line. That was other basics. And I don't think you put 10: - it was just 10

dready · 08-28-2004, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Dagwolf
My first one was a 1200.. I voted 2400, though.

I had the TI-994a with a tape recorder too. Who could resist a $99 pc back then?

Haha, yeah I had one of those too! Parsec, Hunt the Wumpas, etc

Reak · 08-28-2004, 12:12 PM

ADSL speed

dennisthemenace · 08-28-2004, 01:02 PM

2400 Supramodem

+++ATH

exposed · 08-28-2004, 01:04 PM

loverboy · 08-28-2004, 01:07 PM

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Originally posted by exposed

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Evil1 · 08-28-2004, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by VirtuMike
I think this would generate a syntax error in 20 on a vic.

I think you couldn't use ; at the end of a line. That was other basics. And I don't think you put 10: - it was just 10

10: print 'this was at least 22 years ago';
20: print 'I was not trying to code a working program in something i havnt seen in 20+ years';
30: if (VirtuMike kills himself) end;
40: goto 10;

fris · 08-28-2004, 01:09 PM

300 baud

had a commodore pet
then c64 then c128

strip poker on a c64

then the jump to a 386-20

sound on pc speakers with leisure suit larry, you smoked the pot and you died

486 dx2 66

and so on

freeadultcontent · 08-28-2004, 01:15 PM

1200baud
2400 next
7200/2400 if you connected to same brand as you modem (no hayes standard, you loved that extra noise upgrade. Maybe it was 9600?
14.4
28.8
33.6
56k Took years to get broadband.

I remember using cassette drives, dot matrix printers, colored monitors (green is a color bitch!), hole punching 5¼ floppies to make dual sided, text based rpg games, the 1 apple in a room full of tsr-80's, hell could go on.

View Poll Results: What speed was you first modem?
300 bps	19	31.15%
2400 bps	22	36.07%
9600 bps	6	9.84%
14400 bps	8	13.11%
28800 bps	3	4.92%
56000 bps	3	4.92%
Cable	0	0%
Voters: 61. You may not vote on this poll

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