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To: petro45acp

“Wow! ASCII art! Takes me all the way back to my High School days in 1976 when we used Teletype terminals with 300 baud acoustic modems to write programs in BASIC.


Yeah but did you have an IBM Selectric typewriter as your input keyboard, “monitor” and output?! (to go along with that lightning fast 300 baud acoustic coupler modem)

I tell the college age set about this and they look at me like I am from another planet (OK, true but different discussion) until I show them pictures of the setup.


25 posted on 01/25/2019 8:33:55 AM PST by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: Prov1322

“Yeah but did you have an IBM Selectric typewriter as your input keyboard, “monitor” and output?! (to go along with that lightning fast 300 baud acoustic coupler modem)”

We had the “IBM Serektrik-correktrik” with either the white out tape, and later the adhesive tape that pulled the strike out.

That acoustic coupler (modems in general) was a mystery. It was years before someone clearly explained modulate-demodulate!

KYPD


32 posted on 01/25/2019 9:10:20 AM PST by petro45acp (All those disopian movies? applefacebookgoogletwitteryahooutoob....you are the bad guys!)
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