Really cool being able to see the status with the lights. And the cool dialup sound of course.

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I don’t remember what S37/S10 might’ve been but the M0 turned the speaker off and the DT tells it to start dialing?

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Nice. Now I can go play Legend of the Red Dragon and TradeWars 2002!

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remember wondering which protocol was best for your download? god that was a thing…

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As far as I’m concerned, the downfall of little blinking lights on the hardware that showed you the status of what’s inside, was the beginning of the making-shitty of the entire internet and computing world.

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Damn right. We sold our souls to a little black mirror in your pocket

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An official Hayes one? No.

I started with an 1200 baud Commodore 1680, then upgraded to a SupraModem through a BBS sponsor program. USRobotics pioneered these, but other manufacturers followed suit on. Basically, if you ran a BBS and displayed a banner ad for the modem, you could buy it (the modem) at a pretty reasonable discount.

It worked really well for years, especially after the initial ROM upgrade (which came supplied not as a flashable update you could download, but as ROM chips that you had to physically swap out).

Supra, like USR, supplied upgrades as well, in the form of a motherboard swap.

I did always want a USR Courier; there was something to the big, black, red LED-lit badassery that was appealing to my teenage self, but the Supra had a little green matrix that told you the status of the session, which was really nice.

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Hayes was the gold fucking standard…

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I think it’s still in the attic. Now, all I need is a landline.

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And a server to call

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