Important Research for Monty Python's Holy Grail

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

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!