Wow, look what I found in the storage unit!

[tonyw]

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

tony

[Blomberg]

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!

Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

[that_punk_guy]

That's nothing... I had to work at McDonald's ;-)

[A4000Bear]

When I was getting my first modem, I was very seriously thinking about building it myself. In the end, I decided to go out and spend the $800 it cost to buy myself a 300 baud modem. It was agonisingy slow, but at the time.......

A little later I got into Viatel, and purchased a second modem specially for it, which ran at the blistering speed of 1200/75 baud. The two were totally separate, so they were connected together with a switch.

Incidentally, in those days, the modems did not have dialling facilities, so a telephone had to be connected with it as well, complete with ancient rotary dial, so that I could dial up the BBS.

I still have a 1975  300 baud rack mounted modem card somewhere....

[thorrin]

redrumloa wrote:
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 ;-)

Heh, yeah man.  I had 300 baud on the c64.  I had to dial the number on the phone, when the carrier signal came, I had to take the jack out of the phone and put it in the modem.  

Those were the days.  A c64 disk (360K) took about 2.5 hours.  When 1200 baud came, it 'only' took about 45 mins.

-Thorrin

[Bodie_CI5]

hehe all you guys kill me! :-D

[Quixote]

bloodline bemoaned:

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

:-? You guys had electricity?  I remember that we needed to connect our modems to the tin-can-and-string telephone system.

:roll: And the magazine cover-disks used to be vinyl 45's...

[Rodney]

LOL

Will AROS come with support for this Coal for us oldies?

[Karlos]

@ thread

:roflmao: :python: :python: :python:

Man, I loved that sketch! All sat there in their smokers jackets drinking brandy (or whatever) and cigars attempting to get across their impoverished youth...

Anybody remember the really weird sketch with the aliens going around turning everybody Scottish so they could win at Wimbledon (insinuating that all Scots are hopeless at tennis)?

Graham Chapman was the hard pressed scientist / detective attempting to unravel the aliens' fiendish plot...

In the end it turned out to be some kind of mansized pudding thing.

Man, what were those guys taking? :lol:

[smerf]

Hi,
@redrumloa
"Son, in my days a 300 Baud modem was king"

heck in my day we thought 300 baud was super fast because we were still using 6 cent stamps on our mail.

smerf :-P

[ottomobiehl]

Karlos wrote:
@ thread

:roflmao: :python: :python: :python:

Man, I loved that sketch! All sat there in their smokers jackets drinking brandy (or whatever) and cigars attempting to get across their impoverished youth...

Anybody remember the really weird sketch with the aliens going around turning everybody Scottish so they could win at Wimbledon (insinuating that all Scots are hopeless at tennis)?

Graham Chapman was the hard pressed scientist / detective attempting to unravel the aliens' fiendish plot...

In the end it turned out to be some kind of mansized pudding thing.

Man, what were those guys taking? :lol:

Remotely, though I do remember the one about the Scottsmen that where bombs.  Showing the guys crawling on their stomachs towards a ticking Scottsman. :-D

Or the "How Not to be Seen" sketch was probably my favorite.

[ottomobiehl]

@ Quixote:

And the magazine cover-disks used to be vinyl 45's...

"...and we made them run by putting rodents on platters chasing a big piece of cheese." :-)

Sorry to be so OT but this is the funnest thread I've seen in a bit. :-P

[Homer]

Karlos - Man, I loved that sketch! All sat there in their smokers jackets drinking brandy (or whatever) and cigars attempting to get across their impoverished youth...

Brandy ?  Nah, I'm afraid it was more like "Who would have believed twenty years ago today that we'd all be sat here drinking Chateau de Chassolet" !!!!!!!!!!

300 Baud ?? OK, I admit it, I'm not THAT old ;-)

Cheers ppl, have a :pint:

Or was it Duff ?

[JetRacer]

Just a tiny leaf thin mint..?

:-)

That's my favorite. Or more specificly; the futile attemt to take cover behind that flower-thingy.

But I really think Blackadder beat the crap out of Monty. Btw, is it true that the drummer in IronMaiden plays Baldric? :-) :-) :-)

"-Turnip!"

[bloodline]

JetRacer wrote:
Just a tiny leaf thin mint..?

:-)

That's my favorite. Or more specificly; the futile attemt to take cover behind that flower-thingy.

But I really think Blackadder beat the crap out of Monty. Btw, is it true that the drummer in IronMaiden plays Baldric? :-) :-) :-)

"-Turnip!"

I guess you were joking... but Baldric is played by Tony Robinson... a TV presenter :-)

[Iggy_Drougge]

Quixote wrote:

:roll: And the magazine cover-disks used to be vinyl 45's...

There actually was such a mag in the UK, you know?