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Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!
« on: November 22, 2003, 03:53:12 PM »
Well cleaning up the old storage unit out back I found a real blast from the past. My good old USR HST modem. How many f you used one of these in the past. I think just about every hard core amiga owner had one.

here is the kicker! I decided to plug it in and fire it up. To my surprise it connects at 28.8 to the dial ups servers I have found. I cant believe USR still supports these! I guess its the V Everything modes out there at the ISP or something.
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Re: Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2003, 09:18:54 PM »
lol, I had an old Miracom Courier HST modem lying around untill I chucked it out a few months ago, it was about the size of a big A4 folder!

Massive! :-P
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Re: Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2003, 10:05:27 PM »
A Commodore 65 prototyoe? An A3000T??!

...Oh. A modem.

:-P ;-)
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Re: Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2003, 10:19:16 PM »
haha you must be a whipper snapper if you think a 28.8 modem is old!

Son, in my days a 300 Baud modem was king ;-)
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Re: Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2003, 10:22:12 PM »
I'm my day we had to make do with coal...
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Re: Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2003, 10:23:10 PM »
...for smoke signals? How does one communicate using a lump of coal? ;-)
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Re: Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2003, 10:29:30 PM »
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...for smoke signals? How does one communicate using a lump of coal? ;-)


Not a Monty python fan then? :lol:
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Re: Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!
« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2003, 10:42:31 PM »
*feeling of vague recollection*

I have the films (and a couple of the shows on tape.) I think they're great but I haven't watched them much. :-(
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Re: Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!
« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2003, 10:55:01 PM »
I refer to a sketch where they are all trying to out "poor" each other.. as you can imagine it gets rather redicules...
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Re: Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!
« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2003, 11:07:24 PM »
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I'm my day we had to make do with coal...


In my day we had to make do with shoe-box.
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Re: Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!
« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2003, 11:30:30 PM »
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I'm my day we had to make do with coal...


In my day we had to make do with shoe-box.


A Shoe Box!!! A SHOE BOX!!! You luckly luck B*****d... in my day all we had was a hole in the ground....
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Re: Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!
« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2003, 11:40:36 PM »
A hole in the ground ??
LUXURY !!!
We used to DREAM of a hole in the ground B-)
When I wur a lad we had it TUFF !!!
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Re: Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!
« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2003, 11:44:41 PM »
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
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Re: Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!
« Reply #13 on: November 23, 2003, 12:36:03 AM »
We had to use a PC.
With Windows.
 
So don't come talking about being lucky ... :-P
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Re: Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!
« Reply #14 on: November 23, 2003, 12:56:54 AM »
Wow, you must have been rich to be able to afford to BUY a modem. When I started computing, modems were so expensive, we had to build our own. I still have my first one somewhere. My mate and I used to dial up and exchange C64 stuff over the point-to-point link. Then someone invented the BBS. That was the end of the good 'ol days :-D

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