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Real programmers set up their own bouncer relays
by z3phyr 8y ago
Real programmers set up their own bouncer relays
- Asooka 8y agoOh please, actual Real Programmers, just picked up the phone and whistled at 9.6kb/s.
- rurban 8y agoMost old POTS phone switches still had the older pulse interface, so you dialed by hitting the hangup button really fast. The new fancy frequency encoding from 300-3300Hz was faster but not proper hacking anymore, you needed extra HW for this. Doable, but generating pulses was much easier.