1964 modem. Damn, I'm old!

[Audio Tech]

Hey guys, check this thing out! An acoustic modem from 1964. I remember acoustic modems and logging into BBS's, but I had no idea they were around THAT long.

No internet porn in those days!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE[/ame]

 

[Corny]

^ you have been to the wrong BBSs

 

[Audio Tech]

^ you have been to the wrong BBSs

Oh no..... I found the right BBS's as soon as scanners became popular.

Damn, those photos used to be grainy! LOL!

 

[Corny]

Scanners? Who needs scanners?

http://www.asciipr0n.com/pr0n/hunky.html

 

[Corny]

And since we were just talking about a BBS ..

Suddenly this old knowledge was useful ..

http://www.justusboys.com/forum/showthread.php?t=298559

 

[cityboy-stl]

That was interesting. I had a job in the '70's where a I had use a similar modem device to transmit data to manufacturing plants. If I remember right the thing was 150 baud. I had to create a transmission tape on the mainframe and then load it on a Sycor terminal to send to about 30 plants. It took for freakin' ever to transmit a 5 page order report. But it was ever so cool at the time.

 

[HornyHenry]

My first computer involvement was a COBOL class, followed by a ForTran class, at an aircraft company during my senior year in high school back in the early '70's. A year and half later I took a data processing class in college. The ForTran class I'd taken helped there. The college class saw us key-punching the IBM cards ourselves.
My old job I retired from was still using IBM cards for farebox cards in the early 1980's. We wrote the data in the spaces provided and turned them in when signing off. They were then key-punched downtown.
Last I heard about the time I retired they were going to eventually have employees write all their reports, bids for work assignments, requests off, etc. at a terminal instead of on paper.

The first modem I saw was in a magazine ad when I was in college. It was acoustic and part of a fax set.