On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:50:35 -0600, Swingman wrote:
"Dave Hinz" wrote in message

Dave "Been there, done that, got the 1200 Baud Hayes Smartmodem" Hinz

That was high tech, dude ... my Fido BBS was first run on a 300 baud "hayes
compatible".

Well, the first one was a Hayes 300 that I bought out of the back of
Byte magazine for $239.00, in probably 1981. I wrote the BBS software
(in Basic, of course), and it ran on a 64KB TRS-80 Color Computer with
(4) 156K floppy drives (5-1/4" of course).

I clearly remember when I hit the big time with a US Robotics
9600, along with 4 MB of memory in the box.

Always wanted one of those. White plastic case, wasn't it? But,
anything faster than 2400 baud is wasted anyway, because that's as fast
as you can read text.

Dave Hinz