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The quintessential signature of the BBS era was the sound of data that you heard coming out of your phone receiver.
by pmoriarty 3y ago
The quintessential signature of the BBS era was the sound of data that you heard coming out of your phone receiver.
- clavoie 3y agoOne of my useless skills back then was being able to recognize modem speeds, brand and sometimes (especially Motorolas and USRs) model just from the handshake noises they made. For a little while, I could recognize my old man's BBS' individual subscribers calling in just by turning up the volume of the modem on top the 386 box...
- fsckboy 3y agoin the days of 7-digit dialing, dialing the Compuserve access number in Watertown MA (which one used from Cambridge MA) played "camptown ladies sing this song"
- xoxxala 3y agoI was the Compuserve rep for Interplay back in the day, and the account number (76702,1342) will be forever burned in my memory. That account was free for some areas of CIS, but not all of it (much to the chagrin of one of producers, who ran up a $1,500 bill in one month of gaming).