Dan Abel wrote:
> In article > ,
> Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>> Dan Abel wrote:
>>>>> Dialup at 26.4, included in the monthly phone bill.
>>>> Spring for a 56K modem and you won't look back. Combined with tabbed
>>>> browsing, the only time you won't know you're on broadband is when
>>>> you're downloading something and how often is that?
>>> I don't know if you can even buy anything slower than 56K any more.
>> I haven't seen any slower than 56K for years. It was interesting to
>> watch the evolution. My first modem was 600 baud.... $250. Then I went
>> to 1200, 2400, and then to 56.... $250 each time. Later on you could get
>> a 56K (Fax modem) for $30.
>
>
> 300, 1200, 2400, 14.4 33.6 and 56. For the first three, I didn't even
> have a computer, just a dumb terminal.
>
> I'm using DSL now.
>
>>> until a few years ago, every new computer came with a 56K modem built
>>> in. Now, with so many people having high speed connections, phone
>>> modems are going the way of floppy drives and the dodo bird. New PCs
>>> don't have them anymore, except as an option.
>> My system is 4 years old and it came without a floppy drive. What good
>> are they anyway? Neither the drives or the disks last more than a few
>> years. Now you can get memory sticks that can hold more data than some
>> people's hard drives, and they are cheap.
>
> I remember when computers didn't have hard disks, and you booted and ran
> from floppies.
>
And wrote "code" in either Basic or CPM or ZCPM. Basic was so easy even
I could do it.