Maybe just as a flex, most times I tried connecting at 14400 it’d drop the call. Probably that’s why I don’t go for the greatest and latest tech purchases since then
When you had some hella good shareware to download, it was always such a letdown to hear the scratchy line downshift to a lower speed trying to find a stable connection.
AT OK ATDT 555-1013 DIALING CONNECT 14400Greetings to the older folk on Lemmy!! :-)Fourteen forty? You ballin! My 4800 baud ain’t got shit on you!
(I can still hear the different connection handshakes)
Maybe just as a flex, most times I tried connecting at 14400 it’d drop the call. Probably that’s why I don’t go for the greatest and latest tech purchases since then
Huh… TIL it was cooking itself lol
30 years late info
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SupraFAXModem_14400
I still have a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 here. Aluminum case and all. It’s a work of art.
A useless work of art. But still…
I had to get rid of my US Robotics (freshly rebranded from… I can’t remember?) 56k when I moved last time. Part of my soul was left with that modem.
This modem:
My 56k modem was internal, so not much to look at.
But the Hayes…
You mean dubstep progenitors?
When you had some hella good shareware to download, it was always such a letdown to hear the scratchy line downshift to a lower speed trying to find a stable connection.
Hey, I played Last Call BBS, I get this reference!