1964 Antique Modem Live Demo

Wonder if he's going to try and dial into the WOPR and play some games?!?
 
^^ Hahaha..

No but seriously that is damn cool. I'm sending this to the parents (titled "The Internet Before You Were Born...").
 
That brings back memories of messing around with an Atari 400 and a 300 baud modem. I would love to find an electrical schematic for the unit he had and try and build one.
 
he'd better change his passwords, wow he posted the number, IPs, user names and passwords all were typed on-screen!

But that WAS cool, it's amazing there was still hardware on the other end that it worked with.
 
Impressive, 300 baud is what my first modem was, and mine wasn't nearly that old.
 
that is freaking awesome, I love to see old tech that still functions today. We have come a long way :D
 
Lol - awesome. I used to have an acoustically coupled modem but it was not in a wood case. Just a plastic job.
 
Time to fire up XModem (or ZModem if you're fancy) and download the Windows 7 RC ISO.
 
synapsis said:
Time to fire up XModem (or ZModem if you're fancy) and download the Windows 7 RC ISO.
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At 300 baud, it might complete sometime prior to the launch of Windows 8. Although, without any error correction that might be iffy!
 
im for having a great big wooden box next to my computer if it makes my Internet speed faster lmao
 
Mark_Warner said:
And I thought 56k modems were terrible.
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My friends computer had a 14.4 and that was the first computer I browsed the internet on (mostly for porn), my first computer had a 28.8 and I borrowed my aunts AOL Internet account which I guessed the password for to browse the internet from home when I was in Jr. High School. Trust me, a 56k was a god send for me, even though I was pissed that my mother signed up with CompUSlave instead of using a perfectly good free NetZero account which I had cracked so it wouldn't show ads (I think it had to do with the cracking she didn't like).
 
darkpaw said:
Although, without any error correction that might be iffy!
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xmodem and zmodem both had error correction. (zmodem was far superior, because it didn't require acknowledging every packet sent, only the bad ones, which sped things up quite a bit.)
 
airbatica said:
That brings back memories of messing around with an Atari 400 and a 300 baud modem. I would love to find an electrical schematic for the unit he had and try and build one.
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Yep, Me too, Of course My 400 had been upgraded to 48K and I had both a 410 cassette drive and an 810 5.25" FHSSFD drive. Anyone know what FHSSFD stands for? I do. :D
 
yea, brings back memories of the days in highschool..

decwriter II with a built in 300 baud accoustic modem.. spent many hours on that thing, wasted many boxes of paper..
 
Never knew anything about digiboards and os/2 warp :) but never got linux version running. Things changed to internet and cable modems and ended it all. Phone bill wasn't cheap.
 
I still have nightmares about playing Starcraft and Diablo2 on 56k, I don't even want to imagine anything slower.
 
I remember an Add, my dad used to keep, that was for Blazing Fast Hayes 2400 Baund modem.
 
RangerXML said:
My friends computer had a 14.4 and that was the first computer I browsed the internet on (mostly for porn), my first computer had a 28.8 and I borrowed my aunts AOL Internet account which I guessed the password for to browse the internet from home when I was in Jr. High School. Trust me, a 56k was a god send for me, even though I was pissed that my mother signed up with CompUSlave instead of using a perfectly good free NetZero account which I had cracked so it wouldn't show ads (I think it had to do with the cracking she didn't like).
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My first modem was a 2400 baud thing.
 
After thinking about it, I bet that it could work at a lot faster than 300 baud.

It is, after all, just an analogue unit which should really only be limited by whatever port it is hooked up to.

I bet the real limiting factor is the system that he is dialing into defaulting to 300 baud for the tone being generated by the analogue unit. If he was able to force it to pick up at a faster speed, I see no reason why it wouldn't work.
 
JokerCPoC said:
Yep, Me too, Of course My 400 had been upgraded to 48K and I had both a 410 cassette drive and an 810 5.25" FHSSFD drive. Anyone know what FHSSFD stands for? I do. :D
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FH = full height (2x5.25" slots)

SS = single sided - you could use double sided disks but you had to turn them over. You could pay for double sided disks or you could roll your own with a hole punch needed to make the notch in the floppy at the appropriate place.

FD is a mystery. DD or SD would make more sense, but then again I was on PC/XT's in 86, since I never had the money (or inclination) to go the disk drive route on my atari 400.
 
All I had with my 300 baud modem was a C64, not a fancy notebook. :)

Still... Amazing it works so well.
 
Amazing... and to think we call early 90's PCs "dinosaurs"... this is like finding a frozen caveman and reviving it...
 
Whats funny is that baby's being born in Japan have (theoretical) access to 160Mbps from home.
 
Wow, no settings or anything. It just works. My first MODEM was 2400 Baud, and had more jumpers than the MB did. Of course it was a good ol ISA. Heh, last time I used it was as a coupler to connect two phone cords together.
 
RangerXML said:
My friends computer had a 14.4 and that was the first computer I browsed the internet on (mostly for porn), my first computer had a 28.8 and I borrowed my aunts AOL Internet account which I guessed the password for to browse the internet from home when I was in Jr. High School. Trust me, a 56k was a god send for me, even though I was pissed that my mother signed up with CompUSlave instead of using a perfectly good free NetZero account which I had cracked so it wouldn't show ads (I think it had to do with the cracking she didn't like).
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Lol, my friend had CompUCrap back in the day. I had Mindspring (which I miss becaise they were local). I managed to get free Bellsouth Internet and had free Internet for almost 5 years, lol.

Anyway. Probably the coolest thing I've seen in a while. That's where it all started, lol.
 
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