17 Nov
2010
17 Nov
'10
1:25 a.m.
On 11/16/2010 4:25 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
(like patching UUCP on
AmigaDOS to let my modem dial with pulse (ATDP vs ATDT) because I
didn't pay the $2/month upcharge for touch-tone dialing on my data
line and the dial string was programmatically constructed in the
application).
Ahhh, yes, I remember those days. :)
I had a 300 baud Radio Shack direct connect modem that I bought on sale
for $22 on the clearance rack. Its main feature, "direct connect" was
an improvement over acoustic couplers of the time. It had one big red
button on the right hand side, and an answer/originate switch on the
left hand side. It wasn't Hayes compatible or have any command modes,
etc. or did anything other than modulate and demodulate. :)
The modem came with a free trial userid/password(you know, the form was
710555,1234 and default passwords like "wolf!desk") for Compuserve which
was nice to have something to dial as soon I got it home. My parents
threatened me if I "racked up any bills with that thing", I would be in
trouble.
The only spare phone my parents had to attach to the modem for the
actual dialing didn't have working touch-tone, so I had to pulse dial
for years. At least it had a redial button. Trying to reach those busy
BBS's by redialing pulse was pretty tough.
-ethan
Keith