I too started with an acoustic coupler and had to relearn all my 20
years previous experience on mainframes
*JohnnyB*
On 06/10/2019 10:52, Christopher Carson wrote:
> I think 2400 was my 3rd or 4th modem. The first was a 110 baud with an
> acoustic coupler that you stuffed a telephone handset into. It was
> installed on a Western Electric ASR33 that also had a paper tape
> punch/reader. What fun! I used to have a collection of tapes that
> would print ASCII pictures, the kind made with letters and punctuation
> marks. Then came a 300 baud with RS-232 connection followed by a 1200.
> I was working with TBBS (The BreadBoard System) at the time and a 2400
> was for “high speed” testing and to cut down the per minute charges.
> TBBS was a dial in bulletin board system that could handle up to 16
> telephone lines simultaneously.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Oct 6, 2019, at 08:51, Judy Madnick <jmadnick (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Okay, you win.
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>> Original message
>> From: "Daniel B Widdis" <widdis (AT) dixonary (DOT) net>
>> To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com;
>> Dated: 10/5/2019 7:00:23 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Dixonary] NEW WORD: CIMELIA
>>
>> I think if my first modem was 2400 baud and I paid for CI$ by the
>> minute (until I snagged myself a comped account for “volunteering” 40
>> hours a month), I get to call myself old. 😃
>>
>> *From: *on behalf of Judy Madnick
>> *Reply-To: *
>> *Date: *Friday, October 4, 2019 at 1:51 PM
>> *To: *
>> *Subject: *Re: [Dixonary] NEW WORD: CIMELIA
>>
>> But at the time we thought it was great!
>>
>> Judy
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Original message
>> From: "Christopher Carson"
>> To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com;
>> Dated: 10/4/2019 1:24:47 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Dixonary] NEW WORD: CIMELIA
>>
>> Ah, nostalgia. I fondly remember the Tapfests that occurred from time
>> to time. I recall one out on Long Island shortly after I came east in
>> 1996 and 2 or 3 at a jazz restaurant on 10th Ave in Chelsea in
>> Manhattan. Theresa Carey, Stu Lieberman, Et al. I think the notorious
>> ’Nando Gelbard even showed up on occasion. Those pre World Wide Web
>> TAPCIS days were a trip. . *It’s hard to imagine worrying about per
>> minute charges and 2400 baud modems nowadays.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 4, 2019, at 10:30, Judy M. wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Good memories (including TAPCIS) for us old-timers, although you
>> don't qualify as "old," Dan!
>>
>> Judy
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 10:09 AM Daniel B Widdis wrote:
>>
>> The title of a song containing the lyric “You’re breaking my
>> heart,” sung when CompuServe eliminated text-based access and
>> forced users into their Compuserve Information Manager (CIM)
>> user interface. __
>>
>> __
>>
>> (shout out to us old timers)__
>>
>> __
>>
>> *From: *on behalf of Dave Cunningham
>> *Reply-To: *
>> *Date: *Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 5:50 AM
>> *To: *Dixonary
>> *Subject: *[Dixonary] NEW WORD: CIMELIA__
>>
>> __
>>
>> For which kindly send me your wondrous fake definitions
>> before Saturday morning at 8 a.m. EDT, adjusting to your
>> local time zones.* 47 hours from the time stamp on this
>> message.__
>>
>> __
>>
>> DQs are not quite as sought after. __
>>
>> __
>>
>> Dave__
>>
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