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wendybeth 01-25-2008 10:59 PM
(Where's that comfy chair.......)

JWBear 01-25-2008 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 187579)
If we are going to discuss our early geekiness, I have to mention that the first modem I used was actually a cradle that you set the phone handset into. It was for direct connection to another computer. I think the thing was about 300 baud (no kiddies: there is no "K" after that number).

Something that looked like this:
Oooooo.......Retro!

Kevy Baby 01-25-2008 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by JWBear (Post 187611)
Oooooo.......Retro!
Check out some of the other stuff on the site.

RStar 01-26-2008 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 187579)
If we are going to discuss our early geekiness, I have to mention that the first modem I used was actually a cradle that you set the phone handset into. It was for direct connection to another computer. I think the thing was about 300 baud (no kiddies: there is no "K" after that number).

Something that looked like this:
Cool! It came with cup holders, too!

When I got my first computer, I had to upgrade the ram from 4MB to a whopping 8MB! And that cost over $100 to do!! Oh, the good old days.......NOT!

alphabassettgrrl 01-26-2008 12:45 PM
Kevy, I remember those! 1200 baud was a huge deal, 300 more common.

I need to watch the Monty movies again.

Kevy Baby 01-26-2008 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by RStar (Post 187638)
When I got my first computer, I had to upgrade the ram from 4MB to a whopping 8MB! And that cost over $100 to do!! Oh, the good old days.......NOT!
Mine had a 16 K upgrade module (from the standard 4 K): The Timex Sinclair 1000

Prudence 01-26-2008 04:10 PM
This was my first computer. It's still in my folks' basement - still functional (last time we checked.)

I think this was our second one, but we had the Model III/IV conversion thingy. I used to have to spend many weekend hours formatting disks for my dad. One of the disk drives was "high density" so I had to put a little round silver sticker on those.

figment1986 01-26-2008 07:36 PM
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Originally Posted by wendybeth (Post 187608)
(Where's that comfy chair.......)
and now for something completely different


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