Dear Modem from 1964, Welcome to the Internet - Model a acoustic coupler modem - Gizmodo

Wow, I was thinking, "There was no way he was going to set the handset directly on top of the modem" Then he did and I was absolutely blown away. I don't know why he had such a hard time finding that phone. It's the Cortelco 2500 series. They still make them. We give them away... more

Reviewed by wheresmyhouse May 30, 07:58pm ( 38 reviews ) • gizmodo.com

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Rated by ocmongoose on Jun 30, 7:11am

wow that's something else
Rated by vineetcoolguy on Jun 18, 8:24am

Neat, when a modem is enclosed in a wooden box, you know it's meant to crawl...
Rated by mang3lo on May 31, 7:33pm

amazing find
Rated by multineedia on May 31, 4:57pm

Wow. Neat. And old.
Rated by kenwoods on May 31, 1:32pm

To those who don't know what a baud is, one baud is one carrier operation (tone change) per second. In this case one baud equals one bit/sec
Rated by spudsstuff on May 31, 1:15pm

Wow, pretty impressive
Rated by Dr-ROX on May 31, 12:10pm

That was awesome! I remember when we cleaned up our IT departament room, we found several old modems. From the nineties i think, but still. I connencted two of them to transmit data using AT commands. Damn fun :) This one would be total madness :)
Rated by garrettair on May 31, 11:08am

I don't know why this is awesome, but it is.

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