Hello Jens, On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:45:18 +0100 GMT (11/01/2009, 03:45 +0700 GMT), Jens Franik wrote:
>> Hey, do you know what an acoustic coupler was? JF> Yes, i used to have one. The first were without cases, only the raw JF> printed circuit board and they wanted to be connected to the phone JF> with rubber cuffs like you use for pipes... JF> I started with the C64 and VC20 and i programmed in asembler, even my JF> own operating system ;-) I programmed in assembler, but didn't write an OS. I wrote a programming language though, and that was programmed in Turbo-Pascal: Extremely modern at the time when fortran was still popular. ;-) >> We are talking GPRS rather than UMTS JF> Previously i have been online like that, if i was traveling for JF> business. EDGE is now the latest over here. >> FYI an acoustic coupler worked with 360 Bit/s JF> I know, but the feeling of sitting in front of the screen, hearing the JF> modem sound and watching the separate characters appear - you can't JF> bite that! True, and you cannot beat it either! >> Gee, I'm getting old. JF> You are not much older than me, i guess not more than 10 years. Oops, suddenly I notice that we are getting way off-topic. ;-) -- Cheers, Thomas. We have enough youth, how about a fountain of Smart? http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/ Message reply created with The Bat! 4.0.28.4 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.1.9.1 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
