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Post #AuOjvoTuOLdBVPIeGW by [email protected] |
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What modems used to look like, when men were real men, women were real women, s… |
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Post #AuOk8VMKnaC5xooDDs by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin And when you sneezed, it would hang up 😜 |
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Post #AuOkSCYcPgW7RUwlO4 by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin I waited a bit and my first modem was a blinding 1200 bps. |
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Post #AuOkSCgPwgktpgazXk by [email protected] |
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@EricFielding I didn't have a modem pool to dial into at 1200 bps—the hea… |
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Post #AuOndtS1Zl8ZWT84J6 by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin and if you practiced enough you could whistle and get the other … |
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Post #AuOndtZT855ltYc0uW by [email protected] |
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@scanner Yup, or whistle a long space to make the other side disconnect. |
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Post #AuOtTCzvA1X8gYGwgC by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin Acoustic modems... Never used those. My first modem *was* a 300-… |
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Post #AuOy8qoqPV0DsXCfbs by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin 300 bps? Luxury! We had 110 bps, using TWO stop bits, and WE LIK… |
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Post #AuOy8qus35p6BE1U0G by [email protected] |
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@brouhaha That modem could handle 110bps, and start/stop bits were a matter for… |
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Post #AuP2TuEpIELONeeSVk by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin An acoustic coupled modem always looked weird when used with a p… |
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Post #AuP2UzHe1HPOJnU9ho by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin I remember using one of these to send my consolidated results to… |
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Post #AuP2pNv28TxkVzdSaW by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin that's faster than you can read! |
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Post #AuP2r0LkjgknzouD7Q by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin i dreamed of having one of these. there were few dialups in aust… |
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Post #AuP2xALGUxLEivcDOS by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin One dollar per bit per second! What a deal! |
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Post #AuP34JKtSPGce3qfom by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin Luxury! |
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Post #AuP36mhtEBZWJgmhP6 by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin But that was when $300 was $300. |
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Post #AuP9WT1Zd3TsWhcZCC by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin What's that round thing on that phone? |
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Post #AuP9WT8fCh9UsgwEFM by [email protected] |
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@VE2UWY @SteveBellovin Let Sarah explain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asjX… |
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Post #AuP9WTFOneXXDa5bkG by [email protected] |
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@admin @SteveBellovin Like I needed ANOTHER YT subscription.So cool. |
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Post #AuP9WTLmPvdzXN4hgu by [email protected] |
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@VE2UWY @SteveBellovin Young trans women take over telephone museum and the gre… |
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Post #AuP9WTRS4qBHoxjEX2 by [email protected] |
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@admin @SteveBellovin I haven't dug yet - where is this wonderland? |
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Post #AuP9WTXTiR0A7eY2vQ by [email protected] |
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@VE2UWY @SteveBellovin South Seattle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections… |
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Post #AuP9WTeZI4fmTdrhya by [email protected] |
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@admin @VE2UWY It’s a great museum! |
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Post #AuPD5Omdgie9N5z3g0 by [email protected] |
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@VE2UWY @SteveBellovin It generates power for the modem. |
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Post #AuPDD5QpWNctfaRsPI by [email protected] |
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@VE2UWY @SteveBellovin It's a 100ms pulse generator. |
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Post #AuPLmAj4d1rnrHDsky by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin Yes, Bell 103 was FSK rather than a synchronous modulation, and … |
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Post #AuPLmAqsA26aFSs6ue by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin Some folks "overclocked" to 450 bps or more, though it… |
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Post #AuPLmAwtncvSY9gvJ2 by [email protected] |
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@brouhaha There was all sorts of amazing engineering in those modems, such as f… |
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Post #AuPN2ZYs9t1nTIpsES by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin Absolutely! IIRC, Bell Labs published papers in BSTJ and elsewhe… |
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Post #AuPN2ZfbkqPpoBzFjM by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin I've always hoped to get my hands on a pair of Dataset 401 u… |
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Post #AuPN2ZldOREi6so47k by [email protected] |
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@brouhaha I never saw those! |
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Post #AuPjYOoNrLaEOEfjoO by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin The only coupler I ever used was the one built into a Silent 700… |
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Post #AuPjawOdxksH89qPcu by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovinI remember finding out about these after figuring out the basic c… |
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Post #AuQChkg0pgbLToZJ2G by [email protected] |
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@admin @VE2UWY @SteveBellovin one of my biggest regret in life is that in my on… |
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Post #AuQChknSO0YXqu3Fdg by [email protected] |
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@k3fnb @admin @VE2UWY I would not have been there were it not for @mattblaze |
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Post #AuQXUdIH4KKZr53Cxk by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin They never caught on big. They were used inside the Bell System … |
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Post #AuQXUdNwjErs8fhjns by [email protected] |
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@brouhaha Probably mostly gone by the time I started at Bell Labs (1982), when … |
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Post #AuRaKBzeD6R1JE0lrk by [email protected] |
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@scanner @SteveBellovin I have perfect pitch. I could do it with my voice. Fun … |
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Post #AuhPPAQBUZUQumx612 by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin Bell 212A (1200 bps full duplex over PSTN, synchronous), introdu… |
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Post #AuhPQOrnGojU0QSDbM by [email protected] |
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@SteveBellovin @k3fnb @admin @mattblaze Prof @mattblaze does have that effect .… |
