EdIII writes with this awesome snippet from Hack a Day: "'[phreakmonkey] got his hands on a great piece of old tech. It's a 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Acoustic Coupler Modem. He recieved it in 1989 and latterly decided to see if it would indeed work. It took some digging to find a proper D25 adapter and even then the earliest serial adapter wasn't working because the oscillator depends on the serial voltage. He dials in and connects at 300baud. Then logs into a remote system and fires up lynx to load Wikipedia. Lucky for [phreakmonkey] they managed to decide on a modulation yardstick in 1962. It's still amazing to see this machine working 45 years later.' when impractical for surfing the www
notes:internet should be capitalized today, there is substance truly cool about getting a 45-year old modem to work with modern technology. The examine I have, is what is the oldest working piece of equipment fellow Slashdotters have out there? I'm afraid as far back as I can go is a Number Nine Imagine 128 Series 2 artwork card on a server still in use at my house which only puts me at about 14 years."

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