nfraser01 wrote on 2023-12-03, 12:46:
Amstrad 2400 baud ISA modem. Great for my Amstrad PC1512 😀
I had one of those, at least same shell, and it was surprisingly fast. By that I mean it had MNP5 and ran up to 9600 baud, getting throughput equivalent to some non-optimised, non-compressed or maybe unsupported at diallin head end 14.4 modems. I mean you wouldn't want to use it now you can get 56k which will at least do 33.6 unoptimised, for free or a buck or two. May possibly be okay for some pre 95 modem compatible games though.
I found out about the surprising performance of mine kinda by accident, I was home sick from college with flu and needed to check my college email, the amstrad modem I just had for some reason, "real" modems were $100 or so still, I mean within the "modern" expectations of the time, 14.4 for ordinary ppl 28.8 for biz critical or deep pockets... anyhoo, so I had that, and a "first month free" internet disk, so I hooked it up, dialled in and was kinda wowed that I was getting a kilobit a second, sometimes 1.1 on a lot of text. Which was fast enough to online browse text sites with images turned off (Not very image heavy then anyway, and html code wasn't all that complex either.) It only got one or two "emergency" uses, but I'd had the taste and in coming months managed to score a "white box" 14.4 Zoltrix for $30ish I think it was at a fair.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.