On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Jim Thompson wrote:
Jim -- who won't admit that he has a complete 'brick' of TAP and a Bud set somewhere, or that he ever got TAP in the mail while he was in Jr. High, (likely putting him on the FBI watch list for life) or that he once, back when computers consumed his life, coded a DSP to generate not only a "complete" set of blue, red and black boxes, but also one end of a UUCP startup sequence from detecting dial tone and generating the DTMF to 'dial' 'the 'phone', through "Shere" just to see if it could be done (as a 1200 baud modem) Perhaps one of the first "soft modems"... You could do the same thing with a decent sound card and a P3 today, but hardly anyone talks UUCP anymore.
Uphill, both ways, in the snow ... :) -- Karen Lofstrom my brother was once a leaf node
