Just found this sub, awesome memories. Two words... US Robotics.
reddit / bbs

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DrMantizToboggan · 2015-10-17 12:40

I was the bad ass of my group of friends because I saved up all my
money from mowing lawns to buy the Sportster 28.8k and then the daddy
of them all, the 56.6k Courier (which I still have). I don't know why
I posted this, just nostalgia overload. My favorite board was Davy
Jones Locker in Worcester, MA. Used to pirate all my Sierra games from
them. Good times...

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PhotoJim99 · 2015-10-17 14:35

I ran a Supra primarily (and when I ran my first BBS in '85, US
Robotics wasn't it yet - Hayes still was, but I ran a Pocket Modem
because it was what I could afford :) ).  But yes, Couriers are pretty
hot modems.  I've got a nice pile of them now that they're so cheap.

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DrMantizToboggan · 2015-10-17 16:45

My dad was the one who got me into being a techie. He had Hayes modems
before we got our USRs. My poor mother wondered why we had three phone
lines and she only had a husband and a son.

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commiecat · 2015-10-17 19:07

Diamond SupraMax -- I used those for a while.  I think they had a
bonded mode (AKA "shotgun") to double up your bandwidth if you had the
extra line and the BBS/ISP supported it.

I was big on Diamond products back in the day.  They had some great
3dfx video cards and [Aureal 3D](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A3D)
sound cards.  Pretty sure my Celeron 300A home-build had Diamond
modem, video, and sound all together at one point.

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mpfjr · 2015-10-18 06:03

I still have my courier v.everything that usr gave me for my bbs in
exchange for a mention on the login screen.  Has a metal badge on it
that says not for resale.  I'll never let it go.

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KismetTheFrog · 2015-10-18 06:07

Oh yeah, US Robotics modems were awesome.  Good speaker on the
sportster, too.  I had an external one and you could hear every chirp
and squawk.  I started with a Hayes 2400 baud modem that came as part
of a bundle with Prodigy, sold through Sears in the late 80s.  Got
into BBSing when a tech support guy from Sears came over to help
troubleshoot problems on my Laser XT.  He had to download files from
an external site and I was truly amazed by this.  Next, I saw a friend
had some terminal software on their computer for connecting to The
Crown Jewel BBS in Lake Wales, Florida.  I would log on there and play
The Pit regularly.  Was hooked ever since.

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goretsky · 2015-10-22 02:56

Hello,

`ATS11=65` for fast dialing.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky