dial-up experiences (was Re: question aaout ISP's)

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. 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. This was after I had been using modems to connect Beehive, Tektronix 4010 and DECwriter LA36 terminals to the PDP-11/70 across town, usually via 300 baud acoustic couplers. Later we got a few leased line modems at 1800 baud. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>