What Ian paid for his v34 modem poll

[lovingboth]

Doing some more tidying at the flat, I came across the receipt for the V34 modem I bought in January 1995.

For those of you who've forgotten :) this was capable of a maximum of 28,000 bits a second, or 50% of what a v90 56k dialup modem will download, and 5% of a 512k xDSL link.

I think it was to upgrade from a 14k4 modem - I was now paying the phone bill :) - and was eventually replaced by a v90 56k modem once a standards war had been settled.

[Poll #272370]

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[lovingboth]

Pooh, I deleted the wrong one and got rid of the one with the comments rather than this, the duplicate.

Fortunately, I haven't got rid of the original yet...


ramtops
April 2 2004, 04:38:27

one of my finest hours was back in about 1990 or so, when Frontline Distribution were doing a 3 for the price of 2 offer on Courier HST. I managed to persuade a customer that they really, really needed a brace of these for inter-site communications, and snaffled the third one for connecting to CIX

happy days ...

lovingboth
April 2 2004, 04:48:20

Quite - they were around £600, weren't they?

ramtops
April 2 2004, 05:03:41

something like - I have a (very slightly guilty) remembrance of flogging them to the unfortunate client at about £800 each!



syllopsium
April 2 2004, 05:12:32

nitpick - V.34 is limited to 28800bps, it's V.34bis that goes up to 33600bps.

lovingboth
April 2 2004, 05:45:50

Ah yes, you're right. Edit :)

I had to look it up, and so I blame some anonymous internet site...
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