The first modem I remember using was when I was 12, a 300 baud modem with manual connect/data buttons. fun to use. ascii pr0n. bbs's and usegroups (all 'illegal' by school rules... However at the same time I remember doing "whiteboard" a/v conferences with universities (Hawaii and Waikato?) over this facy ISDN thingy at Evans Bay Intermediate School, in Welly. That was circa '91. Those were the days. -Jo. On 3/06/2006, at 09:50 , Phonenet wrote:
I used to use a 75/300 bps modem from the office attached to a Luggable computer with 9 inch color screen to access Usenet and the local Bulletin Board Systems... I remember some of you guys (that read this group) as spotty faced teens (and in one case a pre-teen) who frequented the NZ BBS ... I also played with MFM, RLL, ESDI, SCSI, etc hard drives!!
Ian Cousins
Bill Walker wrote:
That would be about right..
Anyone worked with MFM hard drives?
shane hobson wrote:
I used to use Pacnet on a 1200/75 modem on a regular basis. That would have been late 80's from memory.
Shane
Bill Walker wrote:
Ian McDonald wrote:
In which case it was half the Internet - and if all we had was 14K for the whole country - well, say no more.
Its debatable if that really was an Internet connection in the modern sense.
Well I was using it for NNTP, SMTP, FTP on the Waikato link when it was 2.4K and then 4.8K and it seemed like the Internet to me then....
I remember a 1200bps dial up modem my dad had....
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