Re: Episode 14: Christmas Eve shenanigans
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Dec 24 2015 11:19 am
Ni> Regarding modems, I always liked the fact that external modems had lights.
Ni> I eventually started using internal modems, but I always avoided
Ni> software-based internal modems. I tended to like US Robotics internal
Ni> modems, since they always seemed to offer a hardware-based internal modem.
I used whatever I could get my hands on, as my dial-up BBS was made up of
cast-offs. I started with Anchor 2400 Sportsmodems, after a company bought 50
of them for a dial-up WAN and tossed them shortly afterwards when they realized
they needed error correction. I saved a handful of them from the garbage and
gave them out with a copy of COMMO with my BBS number in the dialing directory.
Then, I had an old Telebit T3000, every once in a while I'd have a user with
one of them connect and they'd make a really weird sound when they trained.
Then, an assortment of USR Sportsters as people upgraded -- first a 14.4 when
the 28.8s came out, then a 28.8 when they went 56K.
I've got a cast off USR Courier V.Everything now, but no callers. :)
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