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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/41811290

I think the use of this meme format already counts as one

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)
AT
OK
ATDT 555-1013
DIALING
CONNECT 14400

Crap, this is not the BBS I wanted to call... welp, might as well put something on the wall.

Greetings to the older folk on Lemmy!!
:-)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Fourteen forty? You ballin! My 4800 baud ain't got shit on you!

(I can still hear the different connection handshakes)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Huh... TIL it was cooking itself lol

30 years late info

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SupraFAXModem_14400

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

My 56k modem was internal, so not much to look at.

But the Hayes...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You mean dubstep progenitors?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Hey, I played Last Call BBS, I get this reference!