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Welcome to Techsurvivors => Tech => Topic started by: Xairbusdriver on February 22, 2011, 10:26:03 AM
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Recent code breaking provides answers to how these early devices were used! Scientists <Hayes and Heatherington> discovered papers, long thought to be lost, that deciphered 'scripts' known to only a few! <Interesting slide show of the evolution of the modem.>
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The former head of the Computer Programming Department at KU had a little museum in an old school house next to the rugby/soccer fields. He had huge old everything including old modems that were truly something prehistoric almost. I love the old things but I'm glad I don't have to use them!
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My first modem was an Acoustic Coupler - you inserted the telephone handset [sized to fit a Western Electric telephone] into the modem. I used this along w/ a 'dumb terminal' to connect to a friend's Mini-Vax @ his business so that I could logon and play DND evenings & weekends.
Kb 