BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: Re: Looking for screensho De: DaiTengu Data: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:22:00 -0600 ----------------------------------------------------------- hbRenb: hcRe: Looking for screenshots/a bBynb: hcpoindexter FORTRAN bto cDaiTengu bon cFri Feb 27 2026 07:52 amn Da>> But, finally, after 30-some years, I have a USR modem! Who's laughing Da>> now, US-Robotics? PF> I was decommissioning an AS/400 a couple of jobs ago, and couldn't help PF> but take home the USR Courier DS modem they'd used for remote support. I'd PF> wanted one for so long back in the dial-up days but settled for PF> Sportsters, the consumer level models that never sat even with a serial PF> port cable plugged in. PF> Alas, I had no phone line or place to call with it. I had a 28.8K modem in my first PC, a 486DX2/66 it had a VESA Local BUS video card with 2MB memory, and I think it had 8MB of RAM in it. It was custom built by the guy who did all the IT work at the newspaper my mom worked at, and I was told that the 28.8K modems "had only been out for a week". I had used 14.4K modems at my high school earlier in the year, and no BBS in my area actually had 28.8K for until I had my computer for at least a month, so that may be true. I got my computer in Februrary of 1994 (for my 16th birthday) and Wikipedia says that's the year the 28.8K modems came out.My parents spent a fortune on it. Or, at least a fortune for us. I'm pretty sure it was around $2300. In today's money, the inflation calculator says that's around $5250. I went all out and built a new PC a year ago, and didn't come close to that figure. I think I spent about $3000, and that was with a $300 keyboard. But, the last time I built a PC for myself was nearly 10 years earlier, so I'm comfortable with a $300 a year PC :D I'm glad I didn't wait until this year, it would have cost me $1000 just for the RAM! ...When one connects a 3-phase line, the phase sequence will be wrong. n --- gSynchronetn War Ensemble BBS - The sport is war, total war - warensemble.com ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]