Early internetworking connections

From: Eric Chomko <chomko_at_greenbelt.com>
Date: Tue Aug 7 14:50:09 2001

Roger Merchberger wrote:

> Rumor has it that Bill Bradford may have mentioned these words:
> >On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:35:32AM -0500, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
> >> I'll always hold in high esteem the 300 baud internal modem that let me
> >> discover 'the Internet' in ~1991.
> >
> >Same here. For me it was a HP 110 "laptop" with internal 300 baud
> >modem, dialed up to Tymnet's PC PURSUIT service. Shortly after that,
> >an Atari 520STfm with a Hayes Smartmodem 300.
>

For me, I had a homebrew modem board that was sold through the computer
store I worked at in college. The board was Bell 102 (?) compatible, that I
put
into case from Radio Shack, added a RJ-11 phone jack (w/transformer), and
pulled the power off my SWTPC SS-50 bus. Man, that little modem saved my
butt during crunch time in computer class, as I was able to dial-up at home.
That was quite the luxury for 1979!!!

I used in on the internet back in the mid-80s when I had a 'CompuServe'
account. I remember buying an accoustic coupler at about that time from a
local surplus store and never used it, as my homebrew modem was better
since I could plug the RJ-11 connecter from the phone into my modem.

I had, essentially, the "CAT" modem popular with Apples at the time on my
SWTPC, via a homebrew application Granted I was only doing 110 baud, but
that was due to my using an ASR-33 at the time.

I will have to dig out that modem and photograh it for all to see. It truely
was a fun and very useful addition to my computer system.

Eric


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