Re: are the 56K cards shipping or are they not ?
David Davies (David@buckeyeweb.com)
Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:00:05 -0400
>
> >Got that beat 1200 baud IBM modem about as big as a toaster hooked up
to
> >an Altair PC Kit. All kinds of nice lites and switches on the front.
Not
> >dip switchs but toggle switches. Any body remember this thing. I
picked
> >it up at an auction. for $200 only because I knew what it was. Before
the
> >Apple.....Before...well before anything that would fit on a desk, and
it
> >was basically useless out of the box.
>
> Yeah, know it well. My first computer was an IMSAI (Altair clone). Had
> it hooked up to a military-style teletype and paper tape reader, but had
> to load bootstrap by hand byte by byte with the toggles before it would
> recognize the paper tape. After bootstrap we had wild Bill's original
> MS BASIC on paper tape. Those were the days, 3500 bytes for BASIC, and
> thrilled to get that. Perfect for "Hunt the Wumpus" <g>
Hunt the Wumpus......HAHAHA Man what a nightmare !!
I couldn't believe this damn thing actually worked when I got it. I've
got one program that will actuall dial the phone but that's it :-) That's
about all I would have the time for anyway. I wonder if I could use this
thing as a tertiary Radius server ?
David Davies
Director, Internet Services
Buckeye Internet Services, Ltd.
http://www.buckeyeweb.com
"Through the modem, past the NAP, around the World, nothing but Net...."
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