So which one did you start off with? (poll)

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So Which one did you start off with back in the early days?

300 Baud Modem?
5
50%
1200 Baud Modem?
2
20%
2400 Baud Modem?
0
No votes
9600 Baud Modem?
1
10%
14.4
1
10%
High-Speed Connection?
1
10%
None of the above!!
0
No votes
 
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Michael Slaunwhite
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So which one did you start off with? (poll)

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Hellloooo.

Just trying to find out which speed modem you started off with back in the early days.

Have fun.
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Modem??? I started with a Radio-Shack TRS-80 back in the 70's. Used a cassette player to dl programs with a whopping 4K of RAM!! But seriously, I couldn't give an honest answer to your poll. I never connected till around '97 or '98. So whatever was the norm then is what I started at. Nice question though!:cheer:

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P.S.- By the way, your DOS program rocks.
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Modem??? I started with a Radio-Shack TRS-80 back in the 70's. Used a cassette player to dl programs with a whopping 4K of RAM!! But seriously, I couldn't give an honest answer to your poll. I never connected till around '97 or '98. So whatever was the norm then is what I started at. Nice question though!:cheer:

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Donald R. Hetrick

P.S.- By the way, your DOS program rocks.
Got ya beat. Mine was a Heathkit from Tandy (which I had to assemble myself), then I picked up a TRS-80 model 1 and then a model 4. Then I made the leap to a Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem. Then whe the Amiga came out I picked up a 2000 and went to a US Robotics 128K modem.
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Hi.

My first was a TI-99, vic20->com64->128->trs80-> then my real first computer Tandy 1000SL, and my wonderful 1200 baud modem. I should have kept all of them, but I just gave them away to my next door neighbors to use.

later!
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Does this mean we're gettin' old??!?!?! I remember the Heathkits. Put together a TV during a correspondence course way back.
Still have my TRS and Apple IIe.
Sorry Mike for goin' off topic friend.

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Does this mean we're gettin' old??!?!?! I remember the Heathkits. Put together a TV during a correspondence course way back.
Still have my TRS and Apple IIe.
Sorry Mike for goin' off topic friend.

Your Obt. Serv't
Donald R. Hetrick
Hi drhet58.

Well, I just finished shaving my beard off, and nope, I don't look any younger...I look more disfigured, I'm seeing things that the beard covered so nope, I definately do feel older! :lol:

Cheers!
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:lol: :lol: When I whack mine it seems that I have no chin!!:cheer:
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LOL...okay that's funny! :lol:
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My memory is a little fuzzy but I want to say it was a 14.1. My family's first PC was a black Acer Aspire purchased in 93. It had 8 megs of ram. I remember when we upgraded to 16 megs of ram, it was like "wow.. it's so fast now!"

I also remember being extremely jealous when a friend of mine got a 56k modem... :)
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