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Originally Posted by shaggylive
I used to have a whole series of USR modems between 2400 and 56000. We had some tall white pine's in the yard and they always got hit. I told dad God wanted me to upgrade since lightning kept taking them out.
fyi surge strips are meant for power, NOT communications. most lightning surges enter the house from phone, cable, sat. I've never seen a surge strip actually stop a surge thru the phone/network/cable jacks and the equip ends up fried too.
back on topic,, iphones are dumb.
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Do you remember that when the 28.8K Sportster came out and they released the upgraded 33.6k model almost a month afterwards and you qualified for a free PROM and they mail you that with an extractor tool? Then I was all the rage when I bought that $400 USR Courier V.Everything modem, that thing was huge. It cut down a day or so from my week long downloads that happened those days.
My best friends Dad had every computer from the beginning to now. I played with 12", 8" 5 1/4 and finally 3 1/2 floppy drives. I remember the first two games I played called Invaders which was a Space Invaders clone and Snake.
Good times...<Sniff Sniff>