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Article #625349Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2018 13:19
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2018 13:19
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On 4 Aug 2018 23:23:49 GMT Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > Here are my first modems and costs: Hmm costs I don't know about. > 300 baud $150 The first modem I used had an acoustic coupler and was connected to an ASR33. It ran at tape read speed - mid 1970s > 1200 bps $160 The next one was the 1200/75 or 300/300 modem built into the Torch in 1982. > 2400 bps $250 The next one I used was a Racal 2400 bps unit (that worked a lot better at 1200 bps). No auto-dial, no auto-answer originate/answer mode switch. I didn't own any of these, modems were far too expensive. > 14400 bps $500 The first one I owned was a Sportster 14400 bps unit in 1992. Bought for the express purpose of connecting to Demon Internet. IT would have been much less the $500 that's for sure. The last modem I bouught was a 28.8K USR "Courier V.Everything" which got upgraded first to 33.6K then to 56K. I threw it away a couple of years ago in the last move. It hadn't been used since the late 1990s when I went over to ISDN. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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