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   Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙 (polpo@bitbang.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 13:34:26 JST Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙

   This was the first modem I ever used - a Concord Data Systems 224. My original one is long gone so I’ve been waiting for a cheap one to show up on eBay forever and one finally showed up. This modem opened whole new worlds for me and I hope to see those RXD/TXD lights blinking again on this one! This one is actually slightly fancier than the one we had since it has autodial. Ours lacked that feature so I had to dial the phone myself and hit the DATA button when I heard the modem on the other side

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     tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 13:34:26 JST tom jennings

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     Autodial! Fancy!

     So you think you're better than the rest of us? Harrumph!

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 13:37:24 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @tomjennings @polpo Huh, that makes me wonder, Fidonet nodes would need some sort of autodial to contact the other nodes, right?
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     Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙 (polpo@bitbang.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 13:59:20 JST Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙

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     • tom jennings

     @lanodan @tomjennings what this modem calls "autodial" would be done on Hayes compatible modems with the ATDT command. This modem uses some other scheme and finding a manual is proving difficult...

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     tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 01:17:31 JST tom jennings

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @polpo @lanodan

     Early modems were wild. Some designers clearly hadn't thought things out... And software dialing was CRAZY! No one's gonna want that! Lol.

     Ummm ..,.

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