3Com U.S. Robotics. 56K* Professional Message Modem
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Intel 9600EX! (on a 386 SX 20, iirc)
1200 baud at the time 9600 was the norm. Dad didn't know that they would autonegotiate, and had a 1200 baud modem at work, so...
2400... in 1993
28.8k, can't remember the brand. 33.6 later on, and then finally a 56k, such a big upgrade!
Then I got 4/7/20/1000 broadband.
- I remember when we upgraded to 14400 it felt like light speed.
My family didn't get a modem until 1995, when we got a Mac Performa 5200 with a built-in 14.4 modem.
My first was 28.8 Hayes but was limited to 9800 cause of Telxon audiocopler. I also had a USR PCMCIA card that was 56k(? My memory is slipping cause of long covid) and somehow that was able to connect faster through Telxon audiocopler.
It was the U.S. Robotics 56k PCI Winmodem that Dell was selling with their "Dimension XPS" Pentium II desktops. I later bought a proper 56k PCI modem off of a high school classmate so that I could download Debian packages without having to reboot into Windows first.