The sweet spot for home turntable enthusiasts on a budget seems to be the $200 mark. This might be the best of the bunch.
One can only imagine the sake-fueled club hopping that led to the development of the Seiko Frequency drum machine watch.
1964 Modem Reaches Out And Touches The Internet
By James Grahame
Phreakmonkey YouTubed his vintage Livermore Data Systems "Model A" Acoustic Coupler Modem connecting to a modern Linux box. At 300 baud. That's about 30 characters per second.
He says, "This modem was given to me around 1989 by the widow of a retired IBM engineer. Even better than seeing it in a museum, I decide to hook the trusty Model A up and make it talk to something. After some trial and error, I manage to get it to talk to a terminal server at work and use it to connect to a linux box. It's ALIVE! So, 45 years after it's creation, this antique modem gets to send data to and from the modern Internet."
1964 Antique MODEM Live Demo [thanks, Matrix!]
