How fast was your first modem? Mine was a 2400 baud Hayes:

@alphafox TRS-80 300 baud coupler modem, the modem of OGs.

@alphafox same. I still remember charging the lawyers I worked with $150 to install a modem and AOL.

@alphafox Is that picture for reference? It says 28800 on it for a 28.8 modem.

@alphafox Remember hooking up to my uncles 8-line BBS in 1988 with one of those to play trade wars when I was a kid.

@alphafox 300

@alphafox 450 baud accoustic. (1985 ish) Then 14.4 (early 1990s) Then 28.8k internal, then 56k internal. (mid-1990s). Didn't have 24/7 dedicated broadband at home until 1998 - 1 MBPS/sec - and man that seemed like all the speed in the World back then.

@alphafox I’m pretty sure this was my first one.

The Hayes was always the coolest looking modem. My first was a 300 BAUD built into my Tandy TRS 80 200. (I could read it as fast as it could write. It wasmy first BBS machine.) My favorite was the US Robotics 56k. We used them to remote into our desktop machines at Dell when I first started working there in 1998.

@alphafox 300 baud

@alphafox 300 for short time for first time using BBS, then upgraded to 1.2k

@alphafox 300 baud accoustic then a 1200 baud Avatex. Its a blur after that

@alphafox 110 baud on a teletype. First computer modem was 300 baud.

@alphafox 300. Built it myself

@alphafox I was a teen in the 90s, so 28.8k for me. Quickly got to upgrade to a 33.6k when my house got struck by lightning and fried my modem. I was using a 56k modem as recently as 2014 to configure POTS systems remotely.

@alphafox 1981 150 baud

@alphafox 300 baud

@alphafox Promised 14400 got 7200 if I remember correctly

@alphafox 300 acoustic coupled

@alphafox 75 baud

@alphafox 300 on my C64

@alphafox 300 baud on my Commodore 64

@alphafox 300 Baud for Conmodore 64 for me.

@alphafox was it both send and receive fax? i had a 2800 but only send fax.

@alphafox 300 Baud Atari 830 Acoustic Modem

@alphafox Home was 28800 but work had the 2400. Then I got dual modem (2 lines bonded) rocket modem. Was 112K

@alphafox I had one of these