Dave’s five-hundred-dollar 300-baud modem · Proposed air date:
A discussion of the film WarGames leads Dr. Dave to remember owning a 300-baud acoustic-coupler modem in 1983 and paying roughly five hundred dollars for it. The story captures how strikingly slow and expensive early personal communications technology once was.
This excerpt runs from 5:11.106 to 6:37.790 within its preserved source recording.
Proposed recording date: 2005-05-14. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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