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acoustic coupled modems anyone?

by axonic 10y ago

optionalparens 10y ago
We had a bunch of these bastards at work and at various universities local to me. I seem to recall them all hating each other and many not conforming properly to the standards. Dial and pray. Still sometimes find these, but more often the 9600-56k more modern ranges in random server rooms and offices, still running all kinds of things that no one understands or wants to touch. If I didn't hate consulting so much now, I thought about going into this at some point to charge breakneck prices to do archaeology for these companies. I'd feel bad though replacing or touching such beauty, not to mention they often are the backbone of many businesses so that's why they are so paranoid to go near.
losteverything 10y ago
Yes. My first connection from high school to the town's university computer system. The high school teacher was later (the following September) in my freshman comp sci class learning assembler. Very strange to have your math teacher (doubled as computer teacher) in class with you.
nsxwolf 10y ago
I'd love to show my kids how mine worked - there's a few dial up BBSes out there still - but I don't have a landline and I've only heard bad things about attempting to use a modem over a VOIP service... and there's the little problem of plugging an old telephone into a PC to access that VOIP service in the first place.
- rasz_pl 10y ago
  there you go http://www.whence.com/minimodem/ http://www.whence.com/minimodem/
  - nsxwolf 10y ago
    Looks good, but I want to physically connect the landline phone as an audio device too... that solution seems elusive. I could probably assemble a circuit to do it, though I'm not sure I could design one. I have this Linksys VOIP router that I used to use on my old landline to interface with an Asterisk server, but I don't think the firmware supports this use case.
    - rasz_pl 10y ago
      two laptops next to each other will work fine for a presentation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpaD0BX9yZM&t=16m53s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpaD0BX9yZM&t=16m53s
DanBC 10y ago
It's a bit grimy, but: http://m.imgur.com/JTwCqyy http://m.imgur.com/JTwCqyy That's an A4 piece of paper for scale.
- axonic 10y ago
  Awesome!

acoustic coupled modems anyone?

by axonic 10y ago

acoustic coupled modems anyone?

We had a bunch of these bastards at work and at various universities local to me. I seem to recall them all hating each other and many not conforming properly to the standards. Dial and pray. Still sometimes find these, but more often the 9600-56k more modern ranges in random server rooms and offices, still running all kinds of things that no one understands or wants to touch. If I didn't hate consulting so much now, I thought about going into this at some point to charge breakneck prices to do archaeology for these companies. I'd feel bad though replacing or touching such beauty, not to mention they often are the backbone of many businesses so that's why they are so paranoid to go near.

losteverything 10y ago

Yes. My first connection from high school to the town's university computer system. The high school teacher was later (the following September) in my freshman comp sci class learning assembler. Very strange to have your math teacher (doubled as computer teacher) in class with you.

nsxwolf 10y ago

I'd love to show my kids how mine worked - there's a few dial up BBSes out there still - but I don't have a landline and I've only heard bad things about attempting to use a modem over a VOIP service... and there's the little problem of plugging an old telephone into a PC to access that VOIP service in the first place.

rasz_pl 10y ago
there you go http://www.whence.com/minimodem/ http://www.whence.com/minimodem/
- nsxwolf 10y ago
  Looks good, but I want to physically connect the landline phone as an audio device too... that solution seems elusive. I could probably assemble a circuit to do it, though I'm not sure I could design one. I have this Linksys VOIP router that I used to use on my old landline to interface with an Asterisk server, but I don't think the firmware supports this use case.
  - rasz_pl 10y ago
    two laptops next to each other will work fine for a presentation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpaD0BX9yZM&t=16m53s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpaD0BX9yZM&t=16m53s

DanBC 10y ago

It's a bit grimy, but: http://m.imgur.com/JTwCqyy http://m.imgur.com/JTwCqyy That's an A4 piece of paper for scale.

axonic 10y ago
Awesome!