Deep inside a Delaware strip mall closet, an old, forgotten Pentium computer's NPC.EXE is running wild, compiling deranged and out-dated modmails that read... well, retarded like THIS! Any local frogs up for a mission? Please find & unplug this poor museum relic of a PC! It is suffering! 🐸
(media.greatawakening.win)
YOU'VE GOT BETA MALE!
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I thought it still was an AMD 386DX40.
Looks like an original IBM with the 8086 and 2 floppy drives. Could be a 286 clone.
In high school I had a 286 running Windows 3.1. I can still remember my parents picking up the phone and hearing that sound of the 9600 modem
Wow, you were lucky. I was using a 1200 baud modem. And running on a DEC Rainbow.
We had no modems or internet.....
We had a keyboard and a punch card machine with no monitor in my first computer class. We would write and run a program and then comeback in 1 to 10 hours and look at the results on paper. Their was only one computer on the whole campus shared by everyone.
I used to work with 1200 baud modems too. I think the slowest thing I ever worked with was 300 baud.
Back then you could easily hear the OH - DSR - DTR - RTS - CTS signals. First time I listed to a 28.8 I thought it was static.
My dad worked for the phone company, we had two lines and a phone in every room, even the bathroom lol
I lived in a place back in 2002 where I had to go up on top of the house to use the cell phone reliably. I whistled Green Acres song every time that happened. I'm quite sure I remember someone coming to my house once while I was using the phone, and when they ask me why I was sitting on the roof talking on the phone, I told them cause the phone company didn't have enough wire to install the phone all the way inside the house.
V.32 echo canceling handshake! Bing,...bing....bing...brawwwwww......Each bing flipped the phase of the tone 180°. Made a living in modems back in the day. Good times.
Did you carry a breakout box?
My first PC was a 10MHz 286 running DOS with a 40MB HDD, and 640x480 early VGA color display. Win 3.0 was still about 3 years away.
Still have the MB and HDD. Not sure about any of the other parts. Got tired of lugging around the case - heavy steel. Now I wish I'd kept it.
Nice. My first (family PC) was a 386 20. My first one that was all mine was a 286 (it was years old but I didn't have to share it w anybody!)