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Dont forget fucking with IRQs and DIP switches and jumpers to get that fancy 300 baud modem up and running so you could dial your best friend for a head-to-head

Dont forget fucking with IRQs and DIP switches and jumpers to get that fancy 300 baud modem up and running so you could dial your best friend for a head-to-head game of Populous on your ever so amazingly awesome new EGA monitor! No more Cyan or Amber for this guy! 16 colors FTW! EDIT: And oh yeah - please insert Game Disk #2

bink 5y ago
All this talk of IRQs and DIP switches and no one has mentioned N81 or E71. There was a time when you had to pay attention to the parity before dialing. Also, it looks like 8N1 and 7E1 have become the more common notation now.
- timbit42 5y ago
  Having lived through the modem era and having run a BBS, I've never seen N81 or E71 before. You must have been running a particular piece of software that made up it's own nomenclature.
  - EvanAnderson 5y ago
    The grandparent is talking about parity, data bits, and stop bits[0]. Different serial communications protocols had different framing needs. If you were dealing with PC-based BBS's, for the most part, you wouldn't have run into anything aside from N81. I didn't see much E71 outside of X.25 networks. [0] https://www3.nd.edu/~lemmon/courses/ee224/web-manual/web-manual/lab12/node2.html https://www3.nd.edu/~lemmon/courses/ee224/web-manual/web-man...
- StanislavPetrov 5y ago
  Also haven't heard anyone mention that early manual terms required using "ATDT" to dial with a touch tone phone because the default dialing method was rotary back then and there was no GUI.
jwalton 5y ago
“Mom, don’t pick up the phone!”
timbit42 5y ago
You must have been using DOS or Windows. We Macintosh, Atari ST, and Amiga users had no such IRQ, DIP switch or jumper issues. Also, the Amiga wasn't limited to 16 colors.
- samstave 5y ago
  Well look at the dead technology on this husk of a 'human'

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Dont forget fucking with IRQs and DIP switches and jumpers to get that fancy 300 baud modem up and running so you could dial your best friend for a head-to-head

by samstave 5y ago

bink 5y ago
All this talk of IRQs and DIP switches and no one has mentioned N81 or E71. There was a time when you had to pay attention to the parity before dialing. Also, it looks like 8N1 and 7E1 have become the more common notation now.
- timbit42 5y ago
  Having lived through the modem era and having run a BBS, I've never seen N81 or E71 before. You must have been running a particular piece of software that made up it's own nomenclature.
  - EvanAnderson 5y ago
    The grandparent is talking about parity, data bits, and stop bits[0]. Different serial communications protocols had different framing needs. If you were dealing with PC-based BBS's, for the most part, you wouldn't have run into anything aside from N81. I didn't see much E71 outside of X.25 networks. [0] https://www3.nd.edu/~lemmon/courses/ee224/web-manual/web-manual/lab12/node2.html https://www3.nd.edu/~lemmon/courses/ee224/web-manual/web-man...
- StanislavPetrov 5y ago
  Also haven't heard anyone mention that early manual terms required using "ATDT" to dial with a touch tone phone because the default dialing method was rotary back then and there was no GUI.
jwalton 5y ago
“Mom, don’t pick up the phone!”
timbit42 5y ago
You must have been using DOS or Windows. We Macintosh, Atari ST, and Amiga users had no such IRQ, DIP switch or jumper issues. Also, the Amiga wasn't limited to 16 colors.
- samstave 5y ago
  Well look at the dead technology on this husk of a 'human'