Let’s take a trip down memory lane. I can’t quite put my finger on the year, but I remember it was time to bump up to 9600 bps speeds or greater. As a gift, I received a V.32 modem, which, only talks to other V.32 modems at high speed. You couldn’t connect to the de facto Courier HST modem. So, I save my pennies, and blew it all – all $650 dollars of it, on a brand new Courier HST modem (I still have it in a box).
Ok, now I’m achieving 2.4 kb/s download using Zmodem, hot damn! I think I was 15 years old.