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So which one did you start off with? (poll)
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 7:42 am
by Michael Slaunwhite
Hellloooo.
Just trying to find out which speed modem you started off with back in the early days.
Have fun.
Re: So which one did you start off with? (poll)
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:59 am
by drhet58
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:
Your Obt. Serv't
Donald R. Hetrick
P.S.- By the way, your DOS program rocks.
Re: So which one did you start off with? (poll)
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 12:27 pm
by Shirkon
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:
Your Obt. Serv't
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.
Re: So which one did you start off with? (poll)
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:18 pm
by Michael Slaunwhite
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!
Re: So which one did you start off with? (poll)
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 8:50 am
by drhet58
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
Re: So which one did you start off with? (poll)
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 9:12 am
by Michael Slaunwhite
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!
Cheers!
Re: So which one did you start off with? (poll)
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 10:00 am
by drhet58
When I whack mine it seems that I have no chin!!:cheer:
Re: So which one did you start off with? (poll)
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 10:38 am
by Michael Slaunwhite
LOL...okay that's funny!
Re: So which one did you start off with? (poll)
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 6:31 pm
by Little Powell
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...
