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From: cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of allison via
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Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 6:02 PM
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Subject: Re: Question about modems
> Like RS232/432 signaling the art and science is getting lost to time and age.
> I'd bet more than half here never used a modem or have not in more than
> 15-20 years.
That's probably true, but I maintain my nostalgia for modems and have a bunch,
including real Hayes 300 and 1200 Smartmodems, a SupraFAXmodem v.32bis and v.FC
(the former was my first fast modem; the latter is the one I really wanted in
the day :) but I can't find a way to upgrade it to v.34), and a nice pile of
USR v.Everything modems including an ISA internal, a few v.90 and one v.92
external, and a new-in-shrink HST 14.4. (HST works super well on modern VoIP
lines compared to v.32bis and v.34, I find.)
I even have a dialup console to one of the Linux boxes on my network. Can't
say I need it. It's a bit of an indulgence. But it's there, and it works.
I have a ham radio callsign too (VE5EV) and one of these years I intend to
really experiment with packet radio, and eventually, AX25 TCP/IP networking
over radio using packet modems.
Jim
