What was the first modem you ever had? How fast was it? (self.retrocomputing)

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[-] trurl 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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