Can you believe it? A buddy needs a 2400 baud external modem for his laptop. Apparently it's the only way to connect to the financial institution he needs to do business with.<br><br>And I threw one ...

This one wins my vote for unintended use of hardware. [nathan] sent in his bent modem. His breakout box takes midi signals in and uses them to generate various modem sounds from an old Packard Bell ...

Every general-purpose technology starts the same way: slow, expensive and impossible to ignore. Then it gets fast. Then it ...

This one wins my vote for unintended use of hardware. [nathan] sent in his bent modem. His breakout box takes midi signals in and uses them to generate various modem sounds from an old Packard Bell ...

A lot of folks who bought computers a couple of years ago are finding that the 2,400-baud modems that came bundled inside aren’t up to the demands of today’s communications. The major on-line services ...

Oh how times have changed. I remember on my 2400 baud modem dialing up to a Wisconsin BBS in 93 downloading..ahem...educational photos taking hours at a time. The tier is 294.99 per month. It's for ...