1964 Antique Modem Live Demo

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » May 28th, 2009, 16:00

1964 Antique Modem Live Demo
Ever see a 45 year old modem? Ever seen one that actually still works? Now you have.Thanks to phreakmonkey for the video.

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Publish Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:05:00 CDT
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buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » May 28th, 2009, 16:20

That was mildly interesting.

Akiakaiu · Post by **Akiakaiu** » May 28th, 2009, 17:16

They were using 300 baud back in the 60's? o.O I was using 300 baud in the late 80's. Used it to play trade wars on my friends modified WWIV BBS.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » May 28th, 2009, 18:35

Wow, never knew that modems used to work through sounds from the telephone headset.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 28th, 2009, 18:42

Lee wrote:Wow, never knew that modems used to work through sounds from the telephone headset.

Have you never seen wargames or weird science?

Post by **deject** » May 28th, 2009, 18:43

Lee wrote:Wow, never knew that modems used to work through sounds from the telephone headset.

Haven't you seen WarGames?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 28th, 2009, 18:52

deject wrote:Haven't you seen WarGames?

The poster above is too slow.

Post by **FatherJack** » May 28th, 2009, 19:06

He must be on dialup.

Post by **deject** » May 28th, 2009, 19:10

Like I can be bothered to compete with you?

Lee · Post by **Lee** » May 28th, 2009, 22:13

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
Have you never seen wargames or weird science?

They're probably a bit before my time, I only popped into existence in 1988 y' see.

/Fully expects to be told that that isn't a valid excuse

Post by **HereComesPete** » May 28th, 2009, 22:14

Well it isn't an excuse. The films still exist and are still excellent. Go watch them!

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 28th, 2009, 22:19

HereComesPete wrote:Well it isn't an excuse. The films still exist and are still excellent. Go watch them!

Post by **FatherJack** » May 29th, 2009, 1:15

In truth, I thought the rubber-shrouded phone-handset-slurping modems depicted were rather odd watching the films new at the time. We hadn't had phones that fit them since..well since there wasn't any choice - everyone I knew had the squarish BT slim efforts which would never have worked in those.

Another reason BT meant we were 10 years late to online stuff (Compu$erve being the other one), unless you worked in the industry.