marx2k

Couldn't have been accomplished without democrats

After dieselgate and the discovery that VW was subjecting monkeys and humans to exhaust fumes in experimentation, their sales are still fine.

I honestly don't think consumers give a shit about what negative things companies do.

I'm starting to think they're not

You went from a 300bps to 14.4k?? lol I'm surprised you lived through that experience

This one?

Yep the acoustic couplers. WarGames is from 83.

https://www.cio.com/article/220297/the-technology-of-wargames.html?amp=1

The modem David Lightman used to connect his computer to the outside world, as seen here and in the movie, was an IMSAI 212A. In reality though, it was only labeled that way for the movie. IMSAI never actually produced or sold such a modem. What was actually used in the movie was a Cermetek 212A modem, which could communicate at 1200 (!) baud.

Back in the day before computer modems could be directly connected to a phone line, phone handsets were placed in acoustic couplers connected to a computer, in order to convert sounds to electrical signals (and vice versa). In WarGames, an acoustic coupler is used prominently by David Lightman. Ironically, though, it wasn’t actually needed since his ISMAI (er, Cermetek) 212A modem didn’t need a coupler. It was included purely for the visual effect. Ahh, movie magic!

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

Definitely 1982.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_Microcomputer_Products

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

Modems over VOIP are terrible due to sound compression.

You could make it work though https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mqkTFq7Ekg

Hell, show them a multi-terabyte nvme

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