For completeness' sake at the first commercial ISP to sell individual dial-up to the public, The World, we had six of those typical desktop 2400bps modems (I forget the brand tho I still have them, a photo also I think) sitting on a file cabinet in an office space in Brookline, MA plugged into a Sun 4/280. I bought those modems from a local computer retail store on my own personal credit card thinking maybe others would like to try this internet thing, and we'd just gotten access to a T1.
On January 17, 2024 at 09:28 ka...@biplane.com.au (Karl Auer) wrote: > On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 10:44 -0800, Jay Hennigan wrote: > > We made our own. And then we had to deal with all the wall warts. We > > rigged up a power supply with a big snake of barrel jacks. > > Luxury. We had a hamster in a hamster wheel for each modem. > > Ah, the old days. > > Regards, K. > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) > http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer > -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*
