LEE Sau Dan wrote:

that had acoustic couplers were limited to 300 baud. Except in
Brainstorm where Christopher Walken experienced the recording of Louise
Fletcher's death through an acoustic modem. Other than the the really
fast acoustic modem, it was a great movie.

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Michael Vester wrote:

There were actually acoustic coupler modems which worked at 1200 baud
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Michael Vester wrote:

Heh heh... my first modem was a 300 baud w/acoustic coupler courtesy of
Radio Shack. I used it with my CoCo to access Compuserve. Thankfully I
discovered BBSes right after that and so never again had a shock like that
first phone bill with all those LD charges on it. :-)

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Tattoo Vampire wrote:

a 14.4 modem, I had monthly bills over $100. Finaly got an Internet
connection back in 94. Used dialup until 97 when cable became available
in my area. That means next year I have been online for 10 years. 20
years, if you count dialup to local BBS's.

Still have my Hayes 2400. I keep it as a collectable and it still
works. I can still remember my AT commands. Back in the old days, real
men typed AT commands. We did not use wimpy menu driven terminal
programs.

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Michael Vester wrote:

I've got a 2400 around here somewhere, along with the original C64 I
bought to replace the CoCo. I fired that sucker up a while back and played
a few hours' worth of Predator and Akari Warriors. One bummer: the
Creative Micro 10 MB hard drive I bought for the Commie (to the tune of
$465) seems to be dead.

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Tattoo Vampire wrote:

and I thought I was in heaven. Still have a 64, a 128 and a couple of
VIC-20's kicking around somehwere. So many because I picked them up at
garage sales for a few dollars.

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Michael Vester wrote:

<snip>
Heh, I still have my portable 1200 baud modem, ran off a 9V battery or wall
wart, and it was my primary means of communication, and enabled me to
program at home, (and browse usenet) connected to the HP9000 at the
university, on a surplus Televideo 950. This was in '89, I believe.

vi worked very nicely full screen, thanks. One became quite adept at AT
commands.

Cheers,
WS
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Michael Vester wrote:

I remember buying a 5.25" fdd for my BBC Micro. It cost a fortune, the
controller chip alone was £80, mainly because Acorn took so long to
develop the drive architecture that in the meantime Intel (?) discontinued
production of the chip. They had to be persuaded to do a special run of
them.

But having the fdd was like night and day compared to casette tape.

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begin <519k71-v3b.ln1@vlad.seahaze>,
Peter Hayes <me@privacy.net> writes:
I bought a Torch system which used my beeb as an intelligent terminal.
The torch had a Z80 + 2 floppy drives. It also came with the beeb
basic ported to the Z80. I forget what it cost but it was a few
hundred quid I think. There was also a wordprocessor and a spreadsheet
bundled with it. Great fun. I don't think my beeb or the torch ever
crashed unless I was poking where I shouldn't. :-)

Peter Hayes wrote:

save on tape. With the floppy, it only took a few seconds. My 1541 cost
more than a new 64. I paid almost $400 for it. Floppies were over ten
dollars for a box of ten and they weren't ds/dd.

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Datagram from LEE Sau Dan incoming on netlink socket
<m3r80txgns.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de>. Dumping datagram.
AFAIK, only 300 baud modems used acoustic couplers. Faster modems
plugged directly to phone line.

-Ilari
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Michael Vester wrote:

There was the "Banana" brand which could be turned over, making them
double-sided.

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Roy Culley wrote:

And if you /did/ have a crash, typing "old" would usually get you back to
where you were before the crash.

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Palladium is Microsoft's suicide note.

Peter Hayes wrote:

"official" notching tool to make single sided into double sided.

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Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
Interestingly, you are mistaken. See:

http://www.konexx.com/koupler.htm

If you check the specs you'll see that it goes all the way up to 26kbps,
with 2.4kbps as a minimal standard. This is probably because the coupler
has its own battery.

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Michael Vester wrote:

Yes, you've reminded me - I had one of those leather hole punches. Punch
through where the existing hole is and - bingo...

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Palladium is Microsoft's suicide note.

"Peter Hayes" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:avb9ob.p3e.ln@vlad.seahaze...

Ah yessss...
Just like IBM used to do many moons ago ...
They couldn't be bothered to make too many hardware ( chip ) versions, so
....
when you ordered an upgrade, the service teckie ( sorry - customer rep )
came in, and ...
removed a jumper or to.


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Michael Vester wrote:

When computer mags printed this tip, they nearly always gave a dire
warning about possible data loss due to the flip side not being certified
error-free. :-)

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