wahaha Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 First was 2400. Then went to 14.4 when I started my first BBS using Telegard. Later tried Renegade software and setup FrontDoor mail forums. Even had a registered version of TradeWars 2002. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDawgAMD Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 1200 baud, on my trash80, and playing Zork in Dos, and dont forget the kits you could by to make your 5¼" floppies double sided by putting the notch on the opposite side. woohoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amee Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 300 baud modem for my Commodore 128 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finner Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 14 4 modem...on a good old 386...man those things never broke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 actually my first computer was the trusty commodore 64 and Amiga A500. Did college on IBM PS2's and IBM twin 5 1/4 twin floppies and no hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulreaper Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 14400! :D :D :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaGinger Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 I remember going to a mates house and drooling over a 28,800 modem. It was sooo Fast. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkR0 Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 mine was a good ol' 9600...went per dial-up into BTX (probably unknown outside of germany,its kinda like BBS,well... kinda exactly like it...) which was kinda lame on todays standart...but hey i was like 7 years old and stil trying to master DOS 5.0 on a 20Mhz 386SX and a couple Mb RAM...that were the days....after the Amiga 500 this was a killer machine..... the most intruiging experience regarding technological advancements was the jump from a P133 to a 2Ghz P4...now that was nice especially for games.... B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daffydk Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 I had a 2400 modem on a 286 machine. With 2mb RAM. I upgraded to 4mb module for $140. I was sooo happy because i didnt have to use virtual memory on my smallllll hard drive. I used prodigy. They used to charge twice as much for the 9600 connection. I couldnt afford it and always wished I could have 9600. In a way these forums are like the bb's where I posted at the time. I had a realllly good friend from those bb's and I know her name but I have searched every search engine but I cant find her:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synexo Posted April 24, 2005 Author Share Posted April 24, 2005 First was 2400. Then went to 14.4 when I started my first BBS using Telegard. Later tried Renegade software and setup FrontDoor mail forums. Even had a registered version of TradeWars 2002. LOL You know a few months back just for fun I was playing TradeWars 2002 on my sidekick using the Terminal Client app! And yes you can still find a lot of BBSs and MUDs using TelNet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney247 Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 300 kbps as lowest speed and 9600/28800/33600 Kbps ?!?!? No way! It was 300 bps in those days (not K's yet) :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synexo Posted April 24, 2005 Author Share Posted April 24, 2005 300 kbps as lowest speed and 9600/28800/33600 Kbps ?!?!? No way! It was 300 bps in those days (not K's yet) :-) LOL you're absolutely right! Been so long ago I forgot we didn't even have 'k's back then! thanx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vystral Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 28.8k buddy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assaua Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 My first modem 110 bps teletype modem. Yeah these where in the days when a 10mb (not gb) hard drive weighed 60 lbs . my first bbs was run on an atari 800xl. Tape drive. 300baud acoustic coupler modem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weyoun Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 My first computer was one of those with two 5 1/4 inch floppies, and no hdd. But that had no modem. My first one with a modem was a 75 mhz pentium 1 acer computer with a 28.8 modem. My god I thought that was cool. Then I got another computer in 1999 with a 56k modem, and didn't bother getting cable(yes, the computer had a lan port) until I got my current computer, an overclocked 64 bit 3200+ with a TB of hdd space to store stuff, and that was in around december. So trust me, I still remember the dial up days well. B) EDIT: Fixed spelling error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbb Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 Our P233 MMX had a 33.6K modem, that was probably a lot back then in 1998. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSWIceman Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 First internet service I had was 28.8k from a company in-town. I remember me and my dad going over there to find out when they would be upgrading their modems to 56k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trekfreak04 Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 First ever for me was a 300 baud modem on a Commodore 64. Used it to run ShadowOps BBS... Ahh, that was the good old days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waelabdo Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 33600 bps Very low speed, u have to wait 20 seconds for a page to appear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antilles Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Id first heard of modems bak in 83-84 but didnt really interest me as I didnt know what use 2 (or more) computers talking to each other would be like or even worth having. the nearest idea I had about modems was from the 80s movie 'War Games' with Matthew Broderick. My first real connection to the internet was in 1999 with the SEGA Dreamcast, wow, this was awesome, surfing the web with a games machine. I finally got a keyboard for it and everyone in my gaming community for Sonic Adventure were jumping on the free webspce bandwagon and started learning HTML. In 2000 I moved into Pentium PCs and never looked back. then in 2003 I discovered BitTorrent WOOT! And here we are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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