boatgeek
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2014
- Messages
- 7,526
- Reaction score
- 8,214
Dispute the premise. My experience has always been that the skinny guys can pack far more away than the big ones. You always have to watch out for the wiry ones.
Dispute the premise. My experience has always been that the skinny guys can pack far more away than the big ones. You always have to watch out for the wiry ones.
I'm old enough to remember that, at least.
But gas is just classical!I think acoustic would be OK. No gasoline or natural gas powered guitars though.
Nope, I have never seen that.
Didn't use a Digital VT520 with an acoustical modem. Used a Lear Siegler ADM3A with one, though. By the time the VT520 came out, most folks were using direct-connect 9600 bps modems or faster.
Nope, I have never seen that.
In college we had IBM paper teletypes on acoustic modems. The ones I used at GE in 1980 were VT102 terminals connected to a VAX 11/780. I wrote a VT100 emulator for the 8-bit Atari 800/400 and designed an RS232 interface for it to dial in from home. I ended up selling the hardware for $50 retail and put the terminal software in the public domain. I wrote it in "Forth", if anybody knows that language. It also had XMODEM/ZMODEM file transfer. I can't believe it's been 40+ years!We called them "Dumb Terminals", as they were not a computer but could talk to a Main Frame or other multi-user computer like DEC Mini-Computers. They even worked on Unix computers as serial terminals.
The one shown is a pretty modern one, looks in the late 80s.
The throne.
In college we had IBM paper teletypes on acoustic modems. The ones I used at GE in 1980 were VT102 terminals connected to a VAX 11/780. I wrote a VT100 emulator for the 8-bit Atari 800/400 and designed an RS232 interface for it to dial in from home. I ended up selling the hardware for $50 retail and put the terminal software in the public domain. I wrote it in "Forth", if anybody knows that language. It also had XMODEM/ZMODEM file transfer. I can't believe it's been 40+ years!
+2048 nerd points!!I wrote it in "Forth", if anybody knows that language. It also had XMODEM/ZMODEM file transfer.
Model 33 with paper punch, repaired many of these.A friend had an acoustic coupler modem, but his terminal was his TRS-80. I had a literal teletype in my bedroom, but only used it as the terminal for a computer that was sitting next to it.
View attachment 643879
Enter your email address to join: