[vcf-midatlantic] Your First Modem? (was: Help me remember my first modem)

[Mike Loewen]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2021, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

>>  What was your first modem? Mine was a kit from Micromint in Long Island.
>>  It was around 1980 or so (I was about 13). My dad drove me to Cedarhurst,
>>  LI (I lived in Merrick, LI) to the Micromint sales office and bought this
>>  kit. It was an acoustic coupler, 300 baud kit, with an enclosure, a PCB
>>  and a bag of parts.
>
>  Very cool indeed!
>
>  Mine was a Livermore Data Systems model 71B 300-baud acoustic coupler.  Man 
> did I run up some phone bills with that.  I still have it.

    Mine was a 300 baud Novation J-Cat in 1983, connected to my TRS-80 Model 
III. Direct connect, and I wrote a simple BASIC program to dial out by pulsing 
the hook relay.

http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/Modems/Jcat.html

    Dave, I have a Livermore 76B:

http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/Modems/Livermore.html

    From a 1979 issue of Datamation:

 	LIVERMORE DATA SYSTEMS76B
 	Bell 103/113A-compatible originate-only  type
 	Up to 450 bps using FSK modulation
 	Asynchronous,  half/full-duplex operation
 	Acoustic with  RS232B/C  interface
 	Features alternate voice-data
 	Over 4,000 sold  since  1975
 	$300


Mike Loewen				mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
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