On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 07:44, McKown, John wrote: > What I loved about war games was that the "hacker's" computer was somehow > autodialling with a ACOUSTIC coupled modem. I distinctly remember seeing the > handset of the phone in the acoustic modem. Oh, and the phone was PULSE > dialled, not TONE dialed, to boot.
Just to make sure the point is clear: my first modem *could* do autodialling, without tone capability. It obviously was not acoustic-coupled, but it *did* do pulse dialling. Still does, in fact. It's right over here: a Hayes Micromodem 300. It's a Hayes modem that long predates the Hayes command set. Adam
