14 Sep
2012
14 Sep
'12
11:24 p.m.
lol Fred actually bought one to use (I guess well have to allow for it being a gift.
Suuuuuure). THEN he calls the Microsloth help desk. And let the record reflect my
invention of that term. And yes I am quite sure...
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:30 PM PDT Fred Cisin wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Never even heard of it before... so they killed I
with that one model?
yes
No 2.4ghz or higher models later on?
no
it was one of the early ordinary cordless phones with the base cradle
connected to a computer. "Do not use a portable or laptop computer."
It saved the caller ID data. It claimed to have a TTY/TDD cpability, but
nobody at MICROS~1 "tech support" could tell me how to open a TTY window,
with any more detail than reading aloud from the list of features: "It
says right here, 'Can do TDD communication'. We'll get back to you."
15 Sep
15 Sep
midnight
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Chris Tofu wrote:
lol Fred actually bought one to use (I guess well have
to allow for it
being a gift. Suuuuuure).
I bought it [cheap] at the Foothill swap. Yes. to use it. In my
business, I always had a log of incoming phone messages. I wanted a
system where the caller ID would create the entry in the log with date,
time, phone number; let me type in what I could decipher from the
answearing machine; and dial the phone number if I clicked on that cell of
the log. I also needed a TDD, for which it did NOT work.
THEN he calls the Microsloth help desk. And
Yeah, THAT wasn't very bright.
let the record reflect my invention of that term. And
yes I am quite
sure...
Sorry, doctor Marty has been saying "Microsloth" since 1983.
1:36 a.m.
wow, I was just thinking about these things a few months ago, remembering
middle school, and getting ahold of my first windows 95 CDs ( this was to
repair my home computer I broke, that displayed "Missing operating system"
at POST. you must remember, this was before everyone and their neighbors
had High Speed Internet in the home and torrents I believe existed but
weren't well known and CD burners were still on the horizon, they were
beginning to advertise 98 SE as THE NEXT BIG THING!) and finding the demos
on the disc, and the MS cordless phone was the coolest thing ever! At the
time, at my age, anything that had anything to do with the COM port, let
alone a phone, was cool in my eyes.
Wow, this took me back, the simplest things used to be so cool. But I'm
sure my kids will say "why don't we have 10Gb/s internet like the Joneses
down the street?" to which I will respond by playing the dial-up sound off
of some device, maybe an actual modem! :) (If I want to be a real jerk I
will root around their browser code and find some way to play the dial-up
sound every time they open it! Good idea for an office prank as well no?)
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Chris Tofu wrote:
lol Fred actually bought one to use (I guess well
have to allow for it
being a gift. Suuuuuure).
I bought it [cheap] at the Foothill swap. Yes. to use it. In my
business, I always had a log of incoming phone messages. I wanted a
system where the caller ID would create the entry in the log with date,
time, phone number; let me type in what I could decipher from the
answearing machine; and dial the phone number if I clicked on that cell of
the log. I also needed a TDD, for which it did NOT work.
THEN he calls the Microsloth help desk. And
Yeah, THAT wasn't very bright.
let the record reflect my invention of that term.
And yes I am quite
sure...
Sorry, doctor Marty has been saying "Microsloth" since 1983.
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