long before the blog...

Happy third day of Hanukkah. For your gift, an old piece of technology. Long before the internet, even before AOL and Prodigy and Compuserve, this is the first modem I ever used. You put the phone into the handset. It proved marginally more efficient than simply yelling "one zero zero zero one zero zero one!" into the phone. Marginally. It operated at 300 bps, or 186 times slower than a new modem today. It was probably pretty spendy too, but since I was about five years old at the time, I don't remember.