Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s

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From: si... Simon Turner
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 13:30

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On Monday, in article
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     ste...@eircom.net "Ahem A Rivet's Shot" wrote:

> On 4 Aug 2018 23:23:49 GMT
> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> Here are my first modems and costs:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>   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.

Ditto (albeit 1993 rather than 1992), and for the same reason.  The
Demon blurb gave a price of GBP 250 + VAT @ 17.5% for the USR Sportster
14400 when I got mine; with ~2 CAD to the GBP at the time, Charlie's
$500 looks about right to me.

Nasty little thing in a rather flimsy case IIRC; the Courier was a lot
better.

>         The last modem I bouught was a 28.8K USR "Courier V.Everything"
> which got upgraded first to 33.6K then to 56K.

Ditto, except I didn't bother with the 56K upgrade (my phone line at the
time couldn't manage anything above 33.6K, so there seemed little
point).

> 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.

I've still got two of them sitting in a cupboard over there -->
(not entirely sure why I'm keeping them, except that I like old stuff...)

-- 
Simon Turner                                    DoD #0461
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From: si...@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
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