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hi there, ok here a topic about Modems. Anyone of you know this old things ?
i started for many years with an usrobotics 28,8 baud modem. Hell it was fast at this times Sometimes i miss this strange sounds during connect

I used to work in a local computer shop. I was alway's in the back doing repairs. One day the radio station i listened too started using modem sounds in a promo.

Every tim it came on i would run around looking for wich computer was causing it!

I did that for about a week.

I still look around when I hear the sounds.

i always had the sound muted..hated the noise the modem made when connecting

lol, the noise was the best.

A rush of nostalgia hits me whenever I hear it.

i remember that, no long time ago, i had one , i miss that sound, was really cool

http://wuffie.phoenix-hosting.org/20021030.gif

Yeah, the voice was the best <3

Andi82 wrote:hi there, ok here a topic about Modems. Anyone of you know this old things ?
i started for many years with an usrobotics 28,8 baud modem. Hell it was fast at this times Sometimes i miss this strange sounds during connect

Modem? What's that?
Mode... no I have not idea

Heh....I started with 33.3... and it was the fasted these time!

i hate them old modems, the sound.... it annoys the crap out of me,
i had to use one not that long ago, when i was waiting for my adsl to get connected, my internal was sent to its grave and i had this crap 28.8 modem that was the size of a brick, that was a hard week:P

ravenhair wrote:I used to work in a local computer shop. I was alway's in the back doing repairs. One day the radio station i listened too started using modem sounds in a promo.

Every tim it came on i would run around looking for wich computer was causing it!

I did that for about a week.

I still look around when I hear the sounds.

You should get that checked out

I didn't like the sound of the modems so i muted them
I had a 56 kbps modem. It got hit by a lightening when i forgot to plug it off from the phone line. Next i started using external modems. The first one got fried again by lightening for the same reason. The next one was an ACER III external modem and it is still with me but I lost it's driver

old modems are still ok, as long its not a winmodem. *nix has these feature of backward compatibility, so might put those modems in good use after all.
i got my internal fried with lightning..hrhrhr

wow, i had a 56kb RockWell modem for ages.
Pretty fast thing for its time...
Prolly supported that V5 thing if i remember right.
It has been 4~5years ago since i list used a dailup modem.

I still remember that ISP that was called WorldOnline or something :S
OMG, the irony...

modem sounds is music to my ears.