Let's Talk about Memory Installing and Upgrading Vista Discuss Let's Talk about Memory in the Windows Vista forums; Originally Posted by dazzlin LOL...my first computer was also a TRS-80. Small world. It also had an acoustic coupler modem that was 300 baud. I used it to ...

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Originally Posted by dazzlin

LOL...my first computer was also a TRS-80. Small world. It also had an acoustic coupler modem that was 300 baud. I used it to login to my college computer lab from home. I thought I was rockin'!

Acoustic modems were all the bomb. I don't think I got my first modem though, until I went to my apple II clone. I did like using a cassette tape player to load software though.

My brother had an acoustic modem on his atari 400.

[W.Harbaugh]

Sorry thats a new term for me, I probably know what it is but what is an acoustic modem? Are they the ones that made all the funny noises to connect?

[dazzlin]

Yes, they made funny noises, but then again, regular modems do too. What was interesting about acoustic modems, was that it was a box with big rubber cups. You picked up your old-fashioned phone handset (you know the kind with a big round piece on one end for the ear and a big round piece on the other end for the mouth) and you placed the phone's handset into the big rubber cups on the modem. So the phone's ear piece would be resting in the modem's ear cup, and the phone's mouth piece would be resting in the modem's mouth cup. Literally connecting the phone to the modem, not via a wire, but via the phone's handset.

[W.Harbaugh]

Ah I remember those, they were so cool! Except when I logged on at 6 am and the rest of the house was asleep, I couldn't get the modem to shut up. It was so loud and annoying.

[ninikins]

ohwow. my old modem used to be awful! would wake the neighbours and set the dog barking. Used to cover it with a pillow.

[ultralexy]

ok, I have to put my 2 cents in on this one...my first computer had 16k as well. It was a Texas Instruments TI-99. All it was great for was a little basic programming and a few games, used to make Mr. Bojangles dance across the screen. Didn't get modem support til I got my IBM PS/2. I was practically the only kid on campus that didn't have a MAC at the time, but I finally got a color monitor and I thought I died and went straight to heaven, all 256 colors of it.

[sopaman]

I must be showing my youth here... my first computer had :gulp: 128k of memory!

It was a BBC and was really great - decent games, a word processor that used a markup language for formatting...

Those were the days. I haven't had so much fun on a computer since (made a lot more money though )

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Originally Posted by ultralexy

ok, I have to put my 2 cents in on this one...my first computer had 16k as well. It was a Texas Instruments TI-99. All it was great for was a little basic programming and a few games, used to make Mr. Bojangles dance across the screen. Didn't get modem support til I got my IBM PS/2. I was practically the only kid on campus that didn't have a MAC at the time, but I finally got a color monitor and I thought I died and went straight to heaven, all 256 colors of it.

I remember the TI-99.. At one time I really wanted to get one of those...

The IBM PS/2? Haha.. I had one of those too. I think it was the first pc-based machine I owned. Growing up, I was an Apple guy and my brother went from atari into the PCJr (anyone remember Mac vs PCJr?)... then we both went with the PS/2 when they came out. 256 colors was awesome. I remember just having 16 colors for a while.

[minimugmike]

Did the Atari 2600 qualify as a computer??? LOL