I’ll note up front that if you have a DSL modem and not a cablemodem, that’s fine – go ahead and rate it by posting a comment below. I’ve gone through several cablemodems and one DSL modem over the years. The majority of them were provided by the ISP directly, and in a few instances I had to use what the ISP provided because they would...

Someone was fortunate enough to recover a 300 baud modem manufactured by Livermore Data Systems, manufactured circa 1964. It is a true acoustic modem with the large transducers and all. And, the best part, it still works as the video below will show. This is as old-school as you can get concerning modems. Bear in mind this is pre-Hayes era. In the demo below,...

Unless you use your dial-up modem for faxing or internet you probably don’t have much use for it. However there are some good software titles to make it useful again. PhoneTray is a product (and yes there’s a free version on that site) that will show Caller ID and also has the ability to "zap" telemarketer calls as well. Telemarketing...