What to preserve from the pre-IP era

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote: I myself never used one of my own. I did use an LA36 (in a closet in one of the rarely-visited rooms at Ohio State) in the late 70s that had an acoustic coupler, but my own first modem was a Commodore "VIC Modem" which I got through my first job to go with a Commodore-64 (for those that haven't used one, you picked up a phone, dialled manually, waited for the carrier, then removed the coiled handset cord from the handset and plugged the jack directly into the modem to complete your connection). The terminal program on the included cassette tape was so bad, I wrote my own in BASIC. It didn't handle ANSI/VT-100 sequences, but it was a decent "glass TTY" emulator. My next modem was one of those Ventel MD 212 Plus models I was just writing about earlier tonight, already old when it came into my hands. -ethan