This one wins my vote for unintended use of hardware. [nathan] sent in his bent modem. His breakout box takes midi signals in and uses them to generate various modem sounds from an old Packard Bell… ...

Can you believe it? A buddy needs a 2400 baud external modem for his laptop. Apparently it's the only way to connect to the financial institution he needs to do business with.And I threw one away ...

And all 2400 baud modems allow 300 and 1200 baud transmission. When and if you upgrade to a standardized, reliable 9600, there is no doubt it will support 1200 and 2400 speeds as well.

Now 1,200-baud modems, which are four times as fast, are available for that price, and 2,400-baud modems can be purchased for $400 to $500.

Soon after 2400 baud modems hit the market on V.22 BIS, they doubled transfer rates and came with new data compression standards and introduced V.42 the Auto Reliable Protocol.

External serial modems held on strong, however, and around this time speedy 2400 bps modems emerged on the market. Technology pushed that limit further over the years: first to 4800 bps, and then ...

12 obsolete technologies Americans still use In my apartment, the cordless phone sits right next to the 2,400 baud modem … in my drawer of outdated gadgets. My last VCR sits at the bottom of a ...

When they traded a prize Sega Genesis for a 2400 baud modem, he got even. Years of Internet shareware, eBay'd possessions and video game testing jobs after that, he joined Engadget.

A lot of folks who bought computers a couple of years ago are finding that the 2,400-baud modems that came bundled inside aren’t up to the demands of today’s communications. The major o… ...