Well Connected?

I found this box in the storage trunk in the back of my work van yesterday. It is a Global Village 28.8 modem. I obviously had forgotten that I had put it there when we moved to the new building several years ago.

Yes, I know, I should probably clean that thing out more often. I check the "go kit" in there regularly to make sure I have my PIO resources, but this one had been shuffled to the bottom of the stack.

I clearly remember (and miss) the PowerMac 8600 that this modem served. At the time I was using it we had only one email address serving the fire department. It came to my machine. I would get the (very few) messages each day, print them, and place them in the mailboxes of the appropriate people. At the time I had to attach an analog convertor the the phone so that it could be used with the PBX phone line. High tech!

Note the Compuserve disc included in the package. I just broke the seal today to get the disc out for a photo. It makes me wonder how many of these envelopes remained sealed even as they made their way to "file 13."

Did I mention that just this week it was announced that ALL fire department employees now have access to their own email accounts? We've come a long way, baby.