Hello fellow nerds

[bobobb.livejournal.com]

I thought the community, being tech-savvy, and perhaps into being old-school tech-savvy might know where I could find (locally or not) a hayes compatible dial up modem?

Comments

[geekpixie.livejournal.com]

External or internal? And please tell me, dear gods why?

[bobobb.livejournal.com]

I think external would be best. It's to "call up" a machine that will be collecting data for us, rather than having to go to the field site regularly to collect it.

[faulkner.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

If it's not a lot of data, cellular telemetry plans are really cheap these days ($8/month for 1MB).

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Swapfest, maybe? http://www.mitflea.com/

This is for a gag gift, right?

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

It could conceivably also be for music.

Or Art. Anything can be for Art...

[smammy]

I think I saw one at the Goodwill the other day.

[ron_newman]

I don't know about 'Hayes compatible', but I bought a USB 56K modem at an Apple Store a few years ago, and it has worked fine for faxing (which is all I use it for).

Freecycle might be a good place to look for one, or ask for one. I bet lots of folks have unused 56K modems sitting in closets or basements.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

I used to work with analog modems at my old job that laid me off 1.5 years ago. If you're talking analog modem, the only place I recall having them reliably is mailorder from multitech, which is somewhere in the middle of the USA (near Minneapolis or chicago or somewhere like that). www.multitech.com.

All the other modem manufacturers seemed to slowly go out of business, or just disappear. Stores around here stopped selling them about 5 + years ago.

[ron_newman]

Zoom Telephonics still makes them and they are located in downtown Boston. The page for external 56K USB modems says they are sold at Best Buy, Staples, and Micro Center.

[unferth.livejournal.com]

I've got an old one you can have for the asking, if you don't mind that it's out of packaging and hasn't been used or otherwise tested for 8 years.

It's a US Robotics model 5686E. I even found the power supply and serial cable for it.