Re: Episode 14: Christmas Eve shenanigans
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Dec 24 2015 11:19 am
> Re: Episode 14: Christmas Eve shenanigans
> By: Digital Man to TechDorks on Thu Dec 24 2015 04:22:43
>
> DM> At least one more episodes from your Dorks of Tech in 2015:
> DM> http://mp3.techdorks.net/episodes/techdorks-2015-12-24-ep14.mp3
>
> Regarding modems, I always liked the fact that external modems had lights.
> I eventually started using internal modems, but I always avoided
> software-based internal modems. I tended to like US Robotics internal
> modems, since they always seemed to offer a hardware-based internal modem.
> I don't remember having many problems with internal modems requiring a
> reboot.
It wasn't often that an internal modem had a problem requiring a reboot, but it
would happen from time to time. External modems too, but at least you could
just turn them off and back on again without affecting the computer. Also the
LEDs on the external modems could clue you into what the problem was or the
severity (e.g. no lights usually meant the modem was dead or dying).
> I seem to remember seeing a few internal modems that had a front panel with
> modem lights that would fit into a 3.5" floppy drive bay, but those were few
> and far between.
I've never seen one of those. Definitely a cool feature, but so few users would
even know what the lights meant, it was kind of a geek-feature anyway. I use a
USRobotics (Sportster) external modem for my BBS dial-up line today and often
check the LEDs out of habit. Oh, and when I don't want it to pick up the line,
I just turn it off. :-)
> I still have yet to see the new Star Wars movie, but I plan to see it at
> some point. I've heard generally good things about it so far, and that it's
> better than the prequel movies.
Soon... soon. :-)
digital man
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