Wow you were and early adopter. I remember my first modem being 14.4k and I was the first along the people I knew at the time.
It was an external modem that plugged in the parallel port.
I fixed the link. I hate that my phone browser defaults to the stupid Google analytic links. Need to find out if there’s a setting to turn it off.
And you’re likely correct. Any modem I used growing up were internal cards. As another commentator mentioned I likely confused the port type given it’s size.
Wow you were and early adopter. I remember my first modem being 14.4k and I was the first along the people I knew at the time. It was an external modem that plugged in the parallel port.
I ran a BBS back then too.
With some wild ascii art I hope.
Absolutely
Since that’s so wildly unlikely, do you remember what the model was?
No way I remember that, tried google image and couldn’t find it but found a lot of similar products.
I’ve run into a few of these at work in recent years actually. This is a 56k modem but given 14.4k is even slower, it is very likely.
US Robotics 1 020 0439-00 80-010955-01 56Kbps Courier Everything External Modem https://itinstock.com/us-robotics-10200439-00-80-010955-01-56kbps-courier-everything-external-modem-56878-p.asp
Couldn’t open that, but web searches say rs232. Serial, not parallel, just like essentially all external modems.
People may be confusing the connector type, the horrendous 25 pin DB thing, with the protocol.
I fixed the link. I hate that my phone browser defaults to the stupid Google analytic links. Need to find out if there’s a setting to turn it off.
And you’re likely correct. Any modem I used growing up were internal cards. As another commentator mentioned I likely confused the port type given it’s size.