Nix McRetro
Here’s my relatively new, old modem. The Avtek MegaPlus V.32bis Modem - Model CD950. We have an initial power up to make sure that anything I do from this point in doesn’t put us in a worse position than from when we started.
This year I’ll be primarily dealing with dial-up modems, retro website development and probably a bunch of random ramblings as per normal. To start it off let’s talk about this modem briefly.
The Avtek MegaPlus V.32bis is *almost* the modem of my childhood. What I hadn’t realised is that our childhood modem was probably V.34 rather than V.32bis. I had been calling it “V.34bis”, but that is not the ITU-T Recommendation name. V.32bis supports up to 14.4 kbit/s. The original V.34 standard arrived at 28.8 kbit/s, with later V.34 revisions raising the maximum to 33.6 kbit/s.
Wow, even if it was just V.34 I would have been flying along the old information superhighway.
For me, modems are going to be needed for browsing the GeoCities Archives on my MiSTer. Next up we need to replace some capacitors, and of course do some test dialling.