Monday, September 8, 2003, 11:42:08 AM, Pixie wrote: P> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:24:01 -0400 GMT, Dave Kennedy wrote: P> Grin! I was fascinated with the telecommunications facet of P> computers from the instant I was exposed to it. I think the P> first modem I used was home-made. :-)
Home-made! Very cool! My first dial-up access was over a 110 baud coupler-style modem attached to a teletype (it even had paper tape!) to an HP-2000 across town. I was in high school and was a "technical" assistant in a group that had the teletype. After doing my real work, I could program in BASIC as much as I wanted. I used to rig the computer room's door lock (it was actually just a closet) and climb over the main school gate to sneak in after school hours. I finally got busted by the janitor. You should have seen the quandary the principle was in deciding what punishment to dole out to me! An AP student "breaking into" school after hours to learn more about computers! P> I have a few of those still. My word, I think the going rate P> on a couple of the USR modems I have was around US$600+ at the P> time. That may have even been after the SysOp discount. Very fun times. Crosstalk, etc.! My neighbor across the street ran a BBS and had at least one T into his house to support all his phone lines. I used to dog-sit for him and all those blinking lights and silver USR modems were way cool. This was circa 1982-1984 or so. -- Dave Kennedy ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
