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So many long-forgotten companies advertising! So many modems! I know someone who was a grad student at that time, and how excited he was to get a 2400 baud mo

by wistlo 4y ago

So many long-forgotten companies advertising! So many modems! I know someone who was a grad student at that time, and how excited he was to get a 2400 baud modem and his own VT-100 for work on the VAX. That grad student was me, though today it seems almost impossible to remember what it was like back then. I do remember ruining a colleague's line-by-line source printout by sending a console message that read, "Andropov just died."

ncmncm 4y ago
2400 baud? You lucky bastard! We had to whistle into a handset.
- bruce511 4y ago
  You had a handset? Luxury. We used to dream of having a handset... We used to create static electricity by rubbing a hand on the carpet, then touching the phone wire...
  - ncmncm 4y ago
    You had carpet?
    - MonkeyClub 4y ago
      You had wires? Spoiled brats, the lot of you! We had to use Avian IP and tons of breadcrumbs... https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549