Important Research for Monty Python's Holy Grail

[wendybeth]

(Where's that comfy chair.......)

[JWBear]

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:

Oooooo.......Retro!

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by JWBear

Oooooo.......Retro!

Check out some of the other stuff on the site.

[RStar]

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!

[alphabassettgrrl]

Kevy, I remember those! 1200 baud was a huge deal, 300 more common.

I need to watch the Monty movies again.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by RStar

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]

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]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

(Where's that comfy chair.......)

and now for something completely different