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o1d_dude
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Amen, brother.
Today I tossed out a Hayes 1200 modem that I bought used back in the late 1980's for $300...but I kept the BBS software I wrote back then.
rharshberger
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I might still have a VLB (very long board aka Vesa Local Bus, fer the yung 'uns) form factor modem still hanging around in my computer crap, I still keep a 1.44mb Floppy drive around, not sure why but I do. Yep the BBS days were memorable, when the WWW was command line driven.
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I wonder how many around here don't know anything about Usenet. Don't know what you're talking about when you say baud rate (probably wouldn't care less, unless they were stuck on a 14.4 modem), and wouldn't be able to turn a selection of ascii gibberish into a decent color image of an ELO record cover (or porn) if their lives depended on it.
Actually, I shouldn't do that... it'd only make me feel old.
Actually, I shouldn't do that... it'd only make me feel old.
I started using BBSs when you had to manually dial them with the phone, over and over again until you didn't get a busy signal... then put the handset into the acoustic coupler!
I had an IBM PCjr when I was in high school. My dad worked for IBM and had inside information that allowed him to replace the memory chips in the side car memory pack to boost it all the way up to 256K! The poor suckers without this ability/information could only add up to 128K maximum.
It also had a 300 baud modem in it. Watching the screen update slowly as it connected to a bulletin board, or downloaded a text file, was fun at first but quickly got old.
It also had a 300 baud modem in it. Watching the screen update slowly as it connected to a bulletin board, or downloaded a text file, was fun at first but quickly got old.
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Yes kids... THIS is what the internet looked like at one time.
[video=youtube;AByemfK_qD4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AByemfK_qD4[/video]
Oh, and it never looked like this:
[video=youtube;-3ODe9mqoDE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ODe9mqoDE[/video]
Never has, and never will.
[video=youtube;AByemfK_qD4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AByemfK_qD4[/video]
Oh, and it never looked like this:
[video=youtube;-3ODe9mqoDE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ODe9mqoDE[/video]
Never has, and never will.
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Did you ever try to imitate the beeps used by the acoustic coupler? You could "confuse" the modem.
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I only used acoustic couplers in college and they would confuse themselves. Maybe due to overuse, they would disconnect all the time, forcing you to shove them back on and redial. Terrible. It's easy to forget those days with broadband everywhere.
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Definitely did that with the neighbors as a kid! Strung them between our bedroom windows. :wink:
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But how would you see porn with tin cans and a string? I'm confused.
You had to use this thing called an imagination.
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Tie the can and the porn to the string. Throw can across to neighbor's window, use string to transfer porn from one house to the next.
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It was in a magazine under your matress. Internet killed the can phone and now Playboy
My favorite scene in "Sneakers" was when we find out what Whistler was doing with the Playboy in the van... Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a video clip of it.
