{"id":994,"date":"2013-07-29T08:28:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T13:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=994"},"modified":"2013-07-29T08:37:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T13:37:51","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-supra-modem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/994\/retro-scan-of-the-week-supra-modem","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Supra 28.8 Kbps Modem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/supra_modem_net_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/supra_modem_net_small.jpg\" alt=\"Supra Modem Ad - 1996\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Glowing Modem<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In my early BBS days, I started using a 2400 bps external modem hooked to the serial port of a PC clone.  A few years later, I switched to an external Intel 14,400 bps modem.  Then I believe I got a Creative Labs Modem Blaster kit with an internal 28,800 bps modem on an ISA card.  After that I moved up to 33,600 with some generic Winmodem, then 56,000 bps.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, I signed up for my first cable modem service&#8230;and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Internet World, February 1996, p.9 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What speed was your first modem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glowing Modem In my early BBS days, I started using a 2400 bps external modem hooked to the serial port of a PC clone. A few years later, I switched to an external Intel 14,400 bps modem. Then I believe I got a Creative Labs Modem Blaster kit with an internal 28,800 bps modem on [&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":[213,569,118,567,265,568,60,566],"class_list":["post-994","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-213","tag-28-8","tag-internet","tag-internet-world","tag-modem","tag-plug-and-play","tag-retro-scan","tag-supra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","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=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}