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I wrote ToneLoc because of this movie! It changed my life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToneLoc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToneLoc
by clamprecht 10y ago
I wrote ToneLoc because of this movie! It changed my life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToneLoc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToneLoc
- bnferguson 10y agoHa! I totally used ToneLoc. Found all sorts of interesting systems in my small town. But the most memorable was my science teacher asking me why I called her at 3AM (I had disabled caller id blocking to save a bit of time that night). Whoops. Probably still have a floppy with it in storage somewhere. :D Thanks for making that!
- dsiegel2275 10y agoI too remember using ToneLoc a few times in the mid nineties. Thanks! "I might be an adult, but I'm a minor at heart"
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- bifrost 10y agoTBH its still the best out there! I know people who did all of 415/510/408 and kept fresh .dat files flowing on BBSes for years. Using ToneLoc is how I got into optimizing modem strings, which got me my first job installing modems for Dial ISPs in the 90s. If you lived in the SFBA I probably made your dial experience better because of it!
- clamprecht 10y agoCool! I think the setting I used was "ATS11=45", which made it dial faster. Any faster than that and my switching station couldn't handle it sometimes.
- evilpete 10y agoI used ToneLoc a lot in the 90's :-)
- baldfat 10y agoYou seriously might have help put my two friends in jail in the 80s. They lived in Virginia and they ended up finding a server at the Pentagon. They lost all their computers and weren't allow to use a computer till they arrived in college.