{"id":913,"date":"2012-11-19T16:46:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=913"},"modified":"2012-11-19T16:52:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:52:22","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-finallya-1200-baud-modem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/913\/retro-scan-of-the-week-finallya-1200-baud-modem","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Finally&#8230;a 1200 Baud Modem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/trs-80_modem_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/trs-80_modem_small.jpg\" alt=\"Radio Shack TRS-80 DC-2212 Modem 1200 Baud - 1985\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>FINALLY, I mean, COME ON.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You too could be the proud owner of this Radio Shack TRS-80 DC-2212 1200 baud modem for the low, low price of $399.95 (about $859.81 in 2012 dollars).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;If you traveled back in time with the proper currency, that is.  But I wouldn&#8217;t recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>I recently bought a cable modem that is the equivalent of a 150,000,000 baud modem.  It cost $70 in 2012 dollars.  Not bad for progress.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From BYTE, September 1985, rear cover ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What speed was you first modem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FINALLY, I mean, COME ON. You too could be the proud owner of this Radio Shack TRS-80 DC-2212 1200 baud modem for the low, low price of $399.95 (about $859.81 in 2012 dollars). &#8230;If you traveled back in time with the proper currency, that is. But I wouldn&#8217;t recommend it. I recently bought a cable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,35,27,26,10],"tags":[267,72,113,266,265,190,60,186],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbs-history","category-computer-info-and-history","category-internet-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-1200-baud","tag-72","tag-byte","tag-dc-2212","tag-modem","tag-radio-shack","tag-retro-scan","tag-trs-80"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}