Yes - and who doesn’t miss their blazing fast 56k dial-up modem?!
When I first got on-line my 300 Baud modem cost $300. I would have killed for 56k.
My Tandy Model 100 had a built in blazing fast 300 baud modem.
I brought it to meetings and used it to take notes. The Congress-critter I worked for gave me evil looks. He said it distracted everyone from what was being discussed.
It worked for 20 hours on 4 AA batteries and had a 8 line by 40 character monochrome LCD display.
Cost me right around $1000. Sold it 2 years later for $600. The guy tried to return it a week after he bought it because some of the keys stopped working. Worked fine when I sold it, so I told him sorry, I’m not Sears...
We sound like a bunch of old fart ham radio guys talking about vacuum tubes.
Young ‘un.
I remember my old 2400 baud modem. Stick the handset into the cups and rock out on some C:/ prompt baybee :)
Up till 2005 that is what i used, for free. Even had a device that kept my connection while i answered the phone, and used a hardware modem. It got us by, thank God. Yet Verizon charges 30.00 a month for just 7mbps tops, with no other options. But Comcast is deceptive and more expensive.