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And now, the final part of The Haul - the machine that all these games came with.

It's an LC 575. It doesn't power on, unfortunately, or so I'm told. I plan to open it up and do an inspection for blown caps and the like at some point soon, probably when my better-than-me-at-electronics friend is free to give it a look.

I'm hoping I can get this thing working again - I used a Mac Plus during my school days, along with Apple ][ early on.

But this era of Mac is foreign to me.

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in reply to Elissa

Elissa
Elissa
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There's something else this thing came with though I am particularly fond of - a Banksia 28.8Kbps modem.

Banksia is, near as I can tell, an Australian company that produced modems - and nothing else I ever saw.

This was the brand of modem I had as a kid, dialling BBSs. I had this exact type of 28.8Kbps modem even into the internet dial-up era, never getting a 56k modem at all - i went straight to cable internet from 28.8.

So I'm delighted at getting one of these again! #
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in reply to David de Groot 𓆉

Elissa
Elissa
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Oh wow! That reminds me of my favourite modem - the US Robotics PianoModem, as we called it. That was probably my favourite modem of all time.

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