7 Aug
2008
7 Aug
'08
9:19 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:01:33PM -0600, Richard wrote:
My first home modem experience was using a Silent 700
TI terminal (thermal
print head) with a built-in acoustic coupler. It was manually dial the
number and then plug the phone into the cups.
I have one of those now - a freebie from a friend I ran into at the
Dayton Hamfest - the funny part was, he'd brought it as trade goods
or to sell from another friend's tailgate, but nobody there wanted
anything to do with it - he hauled it around half the day until he
ran into me - he was sufficiently disillusioned that as long as I
would take it from him on the spot, it was mine!
This was before we had
a modular phone jack in our house, so the terminal had to be physically
close to the phone in the kitchen.
I think I removed all the hardwired jacks upstairs myself and replaced
them with modular ones by the time I got my first modem. Our kitchen
didn't even have a phone (and still doesn't) - the nearest phone was,
IIRC, either in the dining room or in what was once "the parlor".
Ah, the joys of an underwired older house. Ours was built around 1905
and was wired for electricity _after_ it was built. Not a grounded
outlet in sight. :-/
-ethan
--
Ethan Dicks, A-333-S Current South Pole Weather at 8-Aug-2008 at 04:10 Z
South Pole Station
PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -50.3 F (-45.7 C) Windchill -86.5 F (-65.9 C)
APO AP 96598 Wind 15.8 kts Grid 23 Barometer 682.6 mb (10530 ft)
Ethan.Dicks at usap.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html