7 Aug
2008
7 Aug
'08
4:46 p.m.
That sounds fancier than the VIC Modem... that one
didn't even connect
to the wall directly - you picked up a regular phone, dial or touch-
tone, dialled your number, waited for carrier, and, this is the tricky
part, before the far end disconnected, you had to detach the coiled
handset cord from the receiver and plug it into the modem. I probably
had about an 80%-90% success rate without having to dial again.
It made the modem cheap, but a bit fiddly to use. If phones had been
cheaper then, it might have made sense to scrap one out and make a
simple switch-box, but I never had the parts on hand to try it.
I don't remember doing this with my VICMODEM, I think (though I was younger
then) that we had a splitter.
The 1660 was luxury by comparison though.
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