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Originally Posted by BooDaddy
Oh heres one.. what about the modems that had the handset cradles? You dialed up the ISP on the actual phone you talk on, then lay the handset in the cradle. THats some old skool junk right there!
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Yep. Hayes 300 baud acoustic coupler modems ROCKED. Yep, that's 30 characters per second, baby! Top THAT!
(and you were calling into your local BBS, not an ISP. At that time, your ISP choices were Nada or Nil. Compuserve ('77) and AOL (83) didn't come online until much later. Hell, I remember when phone companies threatened to charge extra for "excessively long" local calls, because people would spend hours dialed in)
