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Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc.

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[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 9 points 2 years ago

Downloading this 5.5 MB image would take 10 hours (in ideal conditions)

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The drawback of being early is that every BBS you connected to still had 300 baud, so it didn't matter for a while. But when you did match up with another 1200, it felt like warp speed. The only thing that ever beat it was the jump from fast 56k dial-up to cable modem. That was insane.

[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I remember this being the case when u first got my 9600 but most warez boards were still 2400

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Relevant Wi-Fi retro modem PCB to put in one of these I remember seeing on Tindie. Pricey I think, but neat! https://www.tindie.com/products/retromodem/wifi-retromodem-for-hayes-smartmodem/

[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I forget which YouTube personality i saw that showed these off but those looked rad when I saw it. A bit pricy.

Edit: found it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=De5ufcDueRU&t=390s

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

I had this literal model. I don't think there were many options, so probably most people who had modems had them, but still.

[–] Raffster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I had this very exact box.