Does anyone collect old Modems?

[Tony Duell]

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> I have a bunch of 1200 and 2400's lying around, if anyone's interested

Those are old modems??? They sound rather modern to me :-). Old modems 
are things like the Plessey (badged GPO or BT) Modem 2B (all discrete 
transsitors, pot-cores in the filters, does 300 buard), or the 13A (A 
300 baud modem in a plinth that fits under a Telephone 746). Actually, 
those might be too modern for some people :-)

More seriously, some modems are 'collectable' (how I hate that word!). I 
think the Hayes oens in the aluminum cases with the black end panels are. 
Maybe things like the UK Pace Linnet (how many UK BBS enthusiasts had one 
of those? :-). Maybe some of the acccoustic couplers. Personally, I like 
modems with very unconventioanl circuitry, like one I have that uses an 
8088 as a DSP, or one that's got a couple of large boards stuffed with 
AMD 2900 seires chips and an 8*8 multipiier. I think that one does 2400 
bps on a private line.

-tony