Engadgets flashback to 1985

[Dude111]

Wow .. This page is K-RAD!!

www.engadget.com/2005/08/22/engadget-1985

I love most older technology,PRODUCES MUCH BETTER RESULTS

 

[Makaveli]

Wow .. This page is K-RAD!!

www.engadget.com/2005/08/22/engadget-1985

I love most older technology,PRODUCES MUCH BETTER RESULTS

damn I was only 5 in 85

Ahh things were so simple back in the bbs days.

I obviously got into them abit later early 90s but fond memories thanks for this.

certainly don't miss 9600 baud modems tho

 

[Dude111]

I remember using 2400 on my commodore 64 and IT WASNT BAD REALLY!! (For the speed it was)

The guy @ the store kept telling me 2400 WOULDNT WORK ON A COMMODORE 64 -- I got one anyway and it worked fine!!!!! (I read 9600 could be used also (NO FILE TRANSFERS @ THAT SPEED THOUGH (Cpu couldnt keep up)))

 

[natto fire]

My favorite:

One day in the future we'll all work at 200MHz tower desktops with 9600 baud modems, but until then we'll just have to keep dreaming. So while we're just making crap up, how's about the Flatpanel Computer mockup, by crackpot "unconventional" designer Jim Leftwich. One little doozy of a pipe dream the computer actually has a flat screen. Whatever, Jim, it'll happen one day, we so believe you.

 

[erwin1978]

Nobody even had internet back then except for institutions. AOL was but a twinkle in the sky.

 

[arch113]

I remember using 2400 on my commodore 64 and IT WASNT BAD REALLY!! (For the speed it was)

The guy @ the store kept telling me 2400 WOULDNT WORK ON A COMMODORE 64 -- I got one anyway and it worked fine!!!!! (I read 9600 could be used also (NO FILE TRANSFERS @ THAT SPEED THOUGH (Cpu couldnt keep up)))

I started with a 300 baud pulse dial modem (no touch tone dial), later upgraded to a 2400 baud modem for the c64. Even though the c64 was 40 column, there was a terminal program that would display 80 columns for dialing those 'ibm' bbs's

 

[alkemyst]

apple cat FTMFW!

 

[revnja]

This is a neat look back but it's hard to get over the fact that this is so poorly written (as usual with Engadget).

 

[alkemyst]

This is a neat look back but it's hard to get over the fact that this is so poorly written (as usual with Engadget).

its a joke

 

[rsutoratosu]

Holy cow i didn't know engadget ran that far back..

i remember loading our cool 300/1200/2400 baud modems, running our own searchlight and telegard / pcboard bbs l33333t hahahahaha

 

[HendrixFan]

its a joke

I thought more than a handful of references should have made it clear it was a joke. Plus the technical jargon and modern day slang for good measure.