I remember that TI luggable - that sucker weighed a ton! I dragged it from the lab to my dorm a few times to log in remotely, but carrying it on a bicycle was a dicey deal and I got over the novelty pretty quickly. I'd forgotten who made it until you mentioned it - good memories! Gene On 2/17/20 11:34 AM, nanog08@mulligan.org wrote:
Back in 1973 I was hired by Tymshare to "hack" Tymnet and some of the various systems (XDS 940, PDP-10s) - I was 15. Tymshare provided me with a Teletype ASR-33 (with the built in tape punch and reader). I had an AJ 300 baud acoustic coupler. We had a second phone line installed, 'cause my dad was tired of picking up the phone and hearing tones. I ended up rewiring the house phones so I could put the terminal in my room.
When I went to the Pentagon in '79 I was in charge of PENT-TIP and got to take home and travel with a TI Silent700 with a built in acoustic coupler. We had a bank of 300/1200 baud modems on PENT-TIP. Our IMP was connected to the Arpanet via a 56K modem that was the size of 5 foot tall 19" rack! Back in those days it seems TIP phone numbers were closely guarded treasure.
I still remember when I got an LS ADM-3A (no more finding rolls of thermal paper). I still have it, though I don't know why...
Geoff
On 2/17/20 11:20 AM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote:
On Feb 17, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Gene LeDuc <gleduc@sdsu.edu> wrote:
I was a student worker at a computer lab at USC in the 70s and a buddy had a system operator job at ISI in Marina Del Rey. One day he connected to his office from my lab via a 300baud acoustic modem and then got on the ARPA-NET. From there he connected to a system called ATLAS in the UK. I had no idea what to do at the prompt so I typed
? to get list of commands. My global eyes were opened when the response was
Pardon?
instead of the usual rude or cryptic error message that I was used to. There was a big world out there and we were definitely not in Kansas anymore! It was about 1980. My C-128 came with one of those CIS snap packs to let you test connecting to the 'net via Compuserve. So I connected with my 300baud modem and..whoa!!!
When I got my next computer (and first portable) shortly thereafter (a TRS Model 100) I got acoustic cups for it, and suddenly I was connected from anywhere and everywhere there was a phone - including from my job at a Fotomat booth (remember those?) :-)
Anne
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