Retro Scan of the Week: “When to Use Low Speed Modems”
January 30th, 2006 by Benj Edwards
From a 1986 Inmac catalog. It really makes the decision a simple, clear-cut one — and it doubles as a really boring board game! I found this amusing, so I thought I’d share it. More to come.
January 31st, 2006 at 4:43 am
Haha very nice! I love how the flowchart is supposed to make it easy for new customers to decide between products, but the first step requires information that usually only techno-savvy users would know (1200bps? That’s EXACTLY what I need!). Ah, maybe it’s just back in the day far enough that there *were* no computer-illiterate modem customers.
February 1st, 2006 at 1:27 pm
Yeah, if somebody was shopping for a modem in that catalog then they probably knew at least a little bit about modems. Pretty funny, though.