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Wow.. that brough back old memories.. baud.. bps, throughput discussions.. etc. Some called it a dataset instead of a modem. I had an old 53? baud acoustic coupled setup long ago. I still remember the first IBM machine I used.. had 32k memory, and basic on eprom.. used dos 1.1.. was a ibm pc huge cga graphics card.. and 2 full sized 5 1/4 floppies. Our first upgraded was a 30meg mfm HDD. Before that I played on a timex sinclair, a trs 80 slant 4, various apple.. commodore / vic systems.. ( commode ) color computer ( tandy ) and also an old 8088 running cpm instead of dos. Boy.. I loved the old stuff. So many hardware mods, and tweaks you could do. My first BBS was on a comedore 64.. I had the serial card expander so it could run a 2400bps modem of the card slot.. it had dual SID chips ( sound chips.. a uncommon hardware mod where you actually soldered in a piggyback chip and reversed the address lines to it.. making pseudo stereo sounds ). You could overclock the system to about 1 mhz and add a cooling fan. it had 2 1541 floppies 180k? 320k? cant remember, and I added another 2 sd1001 1 meg floppies. A friend ran one on a coco ( color computer ). also lots of mods available for those of us who liked to bang on the bare iron... Soundguy
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