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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Hah, no one alive back then is going to miss spotting that. I knew it would say Hayes before I clicked. 😁

My first modem: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1644

And my second: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1647

I was so excited when I got the 1200 because I could no longer easily read faster than the BBS output. I always wished I had a Hayes though, because back then the red LEDs were so damn cool. 🙂 😎

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I remember getting my 9600 baud modem. Compuserve was smoking with one of those!

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I always envied the Compuserve folks - the most "online" I got during my C64 days was QuantumLink (which would go on to become AOL) - Compuserve was real internet to me for a long time, but I was never a customer. More or less the same as I felt about Prodigy.

[–] cloudless 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They look like parallel ports!

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

It was a versatile port. You could connect standard parallel devices with physical adapters, but it had other uses as well.

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/User_Port

I have everything but the monitor in my basement. One of these days I need to get mine running. :)