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1964 Antique Modem Live Demo
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 16:00
by News Reader
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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Posted: May 28th, 2009, 16:20
by buzzmong
That was mildly interesting.
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 17:16
by Akiakaiu
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.
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 18:35
by Lee
Wow, never knew that modems used to work through sounds from the telephone headset.
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 18:42
by Dr. kitteny berk
Lee wrote:Wow, never knew that modems used to work through sounds from the telephone headset.
Have you never seen wargames or weird science?
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 18:43
by deject
Lee wrote:Wow, never knew that modems used to work through sounds from the telephone headset.
Haven't you seen WarGames?
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 18:52
by Dr. kitteny berk
deject wrote:Haven't you seen WarGames?
The poster above is too slow.
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 19:06
by FatherJack
He must be on dialup.
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 19:10
by deject
Like I can be bothered to compete with you?
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 22:13
by Lee
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
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 22:14
by HereComesPete
Well it isn't an excuse. The films still exist and are still excellent. Go watch them!
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 22:19
by Dr. kitteny berk
HereComesPete wrote:Well it isn't an excuse. The films still exist and are still excellent. Go watch them!
Posted: May 29th, 2009, 1:15
by FatherJack
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.