[LouieFisk]

“I remember that!”
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Yup - and if you had a modem back in the early days you’d get the screeching too, during the “handshaking” between your PC and the server. Back then there servers was pretty much just local BBS’s. Fun times, though.

[freedumb2003]

>>Yup - and if you had a modem back in the early days you’d get the screeching too, during the “handshaking” between your PC and the server. Back then there servers was pretty much just local BBS’s. Fun times, though.<<

300 BAUD in an acoustic coupler encased in a wooden box to keep transients from screwing up the transmissions.

And we LOVED IT b/c we didn’t have to drive into work at 12:30 AM to fix a Production problem!!

This was when the ability to telecommute did not equal the requirement to telecommute.

[cynwoody]

if you had a modem back in the early days you’d get the screeching too, during the “handshaking” between your PC and the server.

Back in the day, before internet connectivity was everywhere, it was common for credit card terminals to operate over 1200-baud dialup. This remained true even after 56K became the state of the modem art. The reason was, you only need to exchange a few hundred bytes to complete a credit card transaction. At 120 characters per second, you could place the call and complete the transaction before a much faster 56K modem could finish its involved hand-shaking process.