<div dir="auto">I am VERY happy to say I've never used one. It's pretty clever when you think about it, though.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I did use an analog tape recorder for data storage. It was basically one-way acoustic coupling with a cassette tape.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 18, 2017 12:58 AM, "James Taylor" <<a href="mailto:James.Taylor@eastcobbgroup.com">James.Taylor@eastcobbgroup.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">110 baud acoustic coupler, anyone...?<br>
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>>> Pete Hardie <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>> 2/17/2017 5:16 PM >>><br>
I remember having to fight the variations of MNP that GaTech and my modem<br>
had, to get a connection to do classwork<br>
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I remember having a 2400 baud modem (took a lightning strike over the<br>
> phone line), got a 33.6 with the new machine. Did 56k for a while and then<br>
> jumped to dual-line ISDN and single mostly to keep costs down. Apparently I<br>
> was residential customer #4 for DSL in Georgia. That was a substantial<br>
> upgrade. Spent lots of time on the phone with Bell South tier3 support :-)<br>
><br>
> I think Prodigy, first ISP, had a 12 or 24 hour limit. Earthlink was 33.6<br>
> through ISDN. Their limit was 24 hours. The ISDN limit was none for single<br>
> line and $1/hr extra for the second line. Wife set the limit on that :-)<br>
><br>
> I'm pretty sure the Slackware download was on the 33.6 kbps gear as the<br>
> end of that modem was the i386dx system (with the 387 coprocessor!).<br>
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> On Feb 17, 2017 4:40 PM, "Joey Kelly" <<a href="mailto:joey@joeykelly.net">joey@joeykelly.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On 02/17/2017 03:17 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Welcome to Atlanta!<br>
>><br>
>> Slackware was my first distro. 7 floppy download over dialup with my wife<br>
>> picking up the phone to see if I was on the computer. :-)<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Heh. I remember doing 40MB OS/2 fixpacks on a 33.6k modem, and my ISP had<br>
>> a 12-hour limit. It was a race, I'll tell ya...<br>
>><br>
>> --Joey<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 14:32 -0600, Joey Kelly wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hey guys,<br>
>><br>
>> I'm relocating to Atlanta this weekend, I start an admin job at a<br>
>> hosting company on Monday. I ran the New Orleans LUG for longer than I<br>
>> care to remember, and I'm a Slackware/FreeBSD/Perl guy.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
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>> dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark<br>
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