  ChaoswarPremium
join:2002-09-23
Northlake IL | Eh... I use to stuff my modem under a pillow because I hated all that squawking... To think someone actually wants to hear it. eh?  | |
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join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | Re: Eh... Ahh, trade wars.. I wasted so much time with that stupid game..  | |
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| |  antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
United State
kudos:4
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| Re: Eh... said by Ahrenl:Ahh, trade wars.. I wasted so much time with that stupid game.. Heh, I wasted time with MUD, chat, and file transfers! | |
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| |  53059959Temp banned from BBR more then anyone
join:2002-10-02
PwnZone | Re: Eh... I can do this with regular dialup over our crappy telephone lines | |
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| | | antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
United State
kudos:4 Reviews:
·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | Re: Eh... said by 53059959:I can do this with regular dialup over our crappy telephone lines Yep, but the sounds were different. I forget how it sounds though. I had an internal Zoom 2400 modem back then. | |
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| | | The sound shown in this video is from a modem that is AT LEAST a v.32bis modem.
2400 baud or less modems did not have thos complex negotiation sequences.
I used to run a BBS back when. I got used to this sound. I could even tell at times what speed someone connected. I'm not proud of that, but it happened. | |
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join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | initial handshake Those digital 'yelps of yesteryear' should be used for hitting those automated telemarketers... | |
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|  Camelot OnePremium,MVM
join:2001-11-21
Greenwood, IN
kudos:1 | Re: initial handshake said by en102:Those digital 'yelps of yesteryear' should be used for hitting those automated telemarketers... A while back, I obtained the fax number of one of the telemarketing companies that kept bugging us. I now forward all of my telemarketer calls to it.
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join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL | I relived it. I relived those days yesterday. I was told I would be transferred to someone in another department who could help me. Apparently that someone was a fax machine. Fun! | |
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| KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | Re: I relived it. i had a fax calling me once made me wish i had a fax just so i could get what was being sent. i bet some juicy things can be found coming over miss dialed fax numbers.
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|  JeffreyConnoisseur of leisurely thingsPremium
join:2002-12-24
Long Island
kudos:3
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| Re: Enter command Gotta love the old days. I rememebr once wanting to setup a PCBoard BBS, but never got around to getting the phone line. Not sure what my 15 year old mind was thinking in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
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| |  StreetSpiritThis spot reserved for Xenu.Premium
join:2002-08-13
Roslyn, NY
kudos:3
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| Re: Enter command said by Jeffrey:Gotta love the old days. I rememebr once wanting to setup a PCBoard BBS, but never got around to getting the phone line. Not sure what my 15 year old mind was thinking in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Heh, you narrowly escaped the addiction! I was 12 when I set up my first BBS running off a 300 baud AT&T dumb modem (which could not hang up on it's own as it did not recognize the Hayes AT command set), a 6502 Apple2C and a whopping 180KB per each of the dual single density, single sided disk drives!
Oh and it had 16K of ram, into which I crammed a rather full featured BBS program of my own frankensteinish design.
Years later, I was running some 64 nodes via MajorBBS & Galacticomm, 8 of which were 28.8kbps (whoa!) and 2 of which were the venerable US Robotics Courier HST Dual Standard. (Those absolutely were the finest modems on the consumer market. Possibly even better than Hayes.)
Those were the fun days, but to make my router screech like a modem training? No thanks! | |
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| | | JeffreyConnoisseur of leisurely thingsPremium
join:2002-12-24
Long Island
kudos:3 Reviews:
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| Re: Enter command said by StreetSpirit:said by Jeffrey:Gotta love the old days. I rememebr once wanting to setup a PCBoard BBS, but never got around to getting the phone line. Not sure what my 15 year old mind was thinking in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Years later, I was running some 64 nodes via MajorBBS & Galacticomm, 8 of which were 28.8kbps (whoa!) and 2 of which were the venerable US Robotics Courier HST Dual Standard. (Those absolutely were the finest modems on the consumer market. Possibly even better than Hayes.) Oh boy, another flashback for me. USR Courier HST Dual Standards!! Those were like the gold of the modem world back then. Damn, you just gave me a good flashback! lol
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| | | None of my 300 baud modems had Hayes commands that I can recall. Before DTFM, before ATDT, before ATDP we switched the modem on and off hook to simulate a pulse dial.
Of course that was if you were lucky to have direct connect modems...
Hmmm, maybe I'm showing my age. | |
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 kyler13Is your fiber grounded?
join:2006-12-12
Arnold, MD | Seriously? Maybe this guy can invent a way to overlay "snow" into the digital picture on my HDTV for old times sake. I miss that, too.  | |
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| | | Re: Seriously? What about the ye old tint push button? I remember that from my 70's erra TV that still had a record player in it. All it did was Change Threepio from a greenish color to his normal gold . | |
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Yea, let's make a wifi router screech like a 300baud modem and then go watch star trek re-runs! | |
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| | 300 baud? I remember 110 baud... with 1 1/2 stop bits! | |
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|  haamsterPremium
join:2002-12-02
Monroe Township, NJ | Re: 300 baud? I never did use 110 baud, but I remember my first 300 baud modem from Radio Shack. Direct Connect! No acoustic coupler! Woo Hoo! Totally worth $70.
Now watch this Color Computer fly! | |
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| |  The BeerI Love It When A Plan Comes TogetherPremium
join:2001-07-24
Atlantic, IA | Re: 300 baud? I believe the proper slang is CoCo | |
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| | | | I got up to 2400bps on my CoCo. The serial card was a pain though - wouldn't receive data without carrier detect present. Took some creative init strings to work around that for a BBS. | |
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| Re: 300 baud? said by dentman42:wouldn't receive data without carrier detect present. Took some creative init strings to work around that for a BBS. If you had a DB-25, you could jumper pins 6 and 8, I think. | |
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| | emptywigHuh? What?Premium
join:2002-08-05
Pasadena, TX | My first was an AppleCat 300 baud for my Apple ][+. It came in a plastic bag with xeroxed instructions and plugged right into one of the slots in the Apple. I don't remember what it cost, but yeah, the first time someone connected, it was like a revelation.
Its fun thinking about all that old gear.
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| |  ROCINANTEOriginal Member 007Premium
join:1999-06-29
Hartsdale, NY | Re: 300 baud? I remember playing Megawars III for $6 dollars an hour back in 1986. The teamwork required made it a fun game.
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|  jansm38Vn800-BPremium
join:2003-05-19
Blackwood, NJ | I've used Acoustic Couplers! Dial the number on a regular telephone and wait for the handshake then quick slam the handset into the coupler before you lost carrier. | |
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 morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000 | 1200 baud was my start speed
oh baby yes. the games and pron seemed endless:
tradewars
pimpwars
that game where you had to buy hay for the peasants and then buy your army to battle other users. | |
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|  BabyBearKeep wise ...with Nite-Owl
join:2007-01-11 | Re: 1200 baud was my start speed said by morbo:that game where you had to buy hay for the peasants and then buy your army to battle other users. Thinking of Kannons & Katapults perhaps?
Also seem to remember of Castles & Catapults for Color 64 BBS. | |
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| | All we need now is...... ......the same sound as a ringtone.
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| morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000 | Re: All we need now is...... great idea. i would put it on my cell phone. | |
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 Blackhood5I Escaped ConvergysPremium
join:2002-08-24
Tallahassee, FL | rtfa Description
Forward Compatible (FC) is a parasitic object meant to be attached to a Wi-Fi or fixed network router. The device monitors network traffic and when packets are sent, they are converted to audio, in the form of a 2400 baud modem dialing up and connecting, and played through the device's on-board speakers.
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 sporkmedrop the crantini and move it, sisterPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ | Dialup DoS Remember this one?
ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d victim.ip
I used to spend hours hitting drive-by dialup spammers with that. Good fun. | |
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|  phxmarkWhat Country Are We Living In?
join:2000-12-27
Glendale, AZ | Re: SyncTERM! said by antdude:Bah, why do it on the router? Just use a software like SyncTerm: » syncterm.bbsdev.net/ to stimulate the speed, ANSI stuff (even music!), etc. Cool. Reminds me of those early days of DOS. Now I can manage the routers and switches at 300 Baud. I used to use TeleTerm v 2.11 in those DOS days. I was also a Coco User. My first modem was a 300 Baud Radio Shack DC Modem going into an RS-232pak and using the builtin terminal program of the RS-232 Pak. Later I got Teleterm 64 for my Coco. Great program. Later upgraded to a 1200 Baud Modem bought from DAK electronics. Later I bought a 2400 at a swap meet and then a US Robotics 19.2K modem at another swap meet.
Those were the days.
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| | antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
United State
kudos:4 Reviews:
·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | Re: SyncTERM! said by phxmark:said by antdude:Bah, why do it on the router? Just use a software like SyncTerm: » syncterm.bbsdev.net/ to stimulate the speed, ANSI stuff (even music!), etc. Cool. Reminds me of those early days of DOS. Now I can manage the routers and switches at 300 Baud. I used to use TeleTerm v 2.11 in those DOS days. I was also a Coco User. My first modem was a 300 Baud Radio Shack DC Modem going into an RS-232pak and using the builtin terminal program of the RS-232 Pak. Later I got Teleterm 64 for my Coco. Great program. Later upgraded to a 1200 Baud Modem bought from DAK electronics. Later I bought a 2400 at a swap meet and then a US Robotics 19.2K modem at another swap meet. Those were the days. Back in my days, I mostly used Qmodem at first and then ProComm Plus for Windows. I remember using Windows 3's Terminal and Xmodem for the first time ever on a 2400 speed. I remember how cool that was!
Does anyone remember Z-modem, HS-Link, etc.? I still use Z-modem (Linux/UNIX boxes) today with SecureCRT (wished PuTTY had it; SyncTerm's is a bit buggy) for file transfers (can resume unlike SCP!). | |
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Who had a CoCo? Remember the cartridge expansions for 4 slots? So you could have speech card, modem connection and whatever.. I just watched the movie War Games which brings back some memories.. | |
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antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
United State
kudos:4 |  For people who loved BBS' or interested in BBS'.
Very good stuff! Awesome to see the people who were big in those days. | |
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|  X_DigitBinary EnhancedPremium
join:2003-06-12
Mansfield, TX | Re: Hayes Smartmodem 1200 8,N,1... oh, what fun! | |
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| | LORD anyone remember LORD? | |
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|  wilbilt Pronto ResurrectedPremium
join:2004-01-11
Oroville, CA | Re: LORD said by anonloser :
anyone remember LORD?
Of course...Legend of the Red Dragon. Hours, days, weeks, lost to that game....
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| | | | Re: LORD I remember... you guys should try LOGD (www.lotgd.net). | |
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| |  n1zukmaking really tiny tech thingsPremium
join:2001-10-24
Malta
kudos:2 | Still play LORD every day.
»lord.nuklear.org | |
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| | CoCo vs Commodore 64. CoCo is the best Man! Since we are walking down geek memory lane.
I remember my first computer which was a CoCo. It was Commodore vs CoCo in those days.
I remember loading programs from a cassette tape drive. Took about 10 minutes to load a semi decent chess game that took forever to figure out it's moves when you cranked up the skill level. Sometimes the tape loading would fail so you had to start again. Hit space bar to tell the computer to start listening and then hit play on the cassette player.
What a horror. Thanks for stirring up those memories guys......NOT! | |
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join:2000-07-02
Lakewood, OH | easy fix... +++
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SyncTERM!