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Modem sounds - 700% slower

Very techno-ambient!

I recall working the production shift in the late '80's and perking my ears as the programmers dialed-in to do night work. Always kept an ear open for the hung carrier! Many a popo'ed modem through the years! :)

Ah, the good ole days!
 
Not quite sure what "700% slower" means.

Since "100% slower" would be no sound at all, I presume they must be playing it in reverse.
 
burke67 said:
Very techno-ambient!

I recall working the production shift in the late '80's and perking my ears as the programmers dialed-in to do night work. Always kept an ear open for the hung carrier! Many a popo'ed modem through the years! :)

Ah, the good ole days!
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I don't know about you, but I can still tell at what speed a fax or modem is connecting just by the sound.

Kids these days don't know shite! lol
T-Rexx said:
Not quite sure what "700% slower" means.

Since "100% slower" would be no sound at all, I presume they must be playing it in reverse.
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speed * .3 ?? I dunno

bankside said:
Ahhh, everyone loves a hung carrier, don't they....
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Only if it's the UPS man...
 
burke67 said:
Same, same!

Life started at 300 baud for myself! LOL!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_700

Who recalls their AT command set? LOL!

ATH<carriage-return>
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Now *that's* a blast from the past. I used to have a bat file used to dial into micro$oft's fax-back service. I would pipe a telephone number into the batch file and it would call-in and request like 10 faxes. So some poor sap's phone number would be ringing off-the-hook all night. The service would retry 3 times per document at 5 minute intervals. I got my assistant principal with it once. :badgrin:

FTFA:
"...receive data at 30 characters per second."
"...the new high-speed interactive computing environment of the mid-1980s."

:lol::eek::help:
 
Mkay. Does anyone else remember modems where you actually had to lift the telephone off the hook and place each end of the handset into a little rubber cup? One end of course being the "modulator" and the other being the "demodulator."

Of course you needed a "normal" telephone and not one of these newfangled "decorator phones" or it wouldn't work.

I only saw one once as a kid at a university. It was functional but we didn't get a chance to use it.
 
^ That was before my time, old man. :P =]

But Grandma's house still has a working rotary telephone - with cloth-covered wiring. She had to call the phone company and tell them they're using it for it to work.

I won't even go into how long it took for her to learn how to use the DVD player :eek:
 
bankside said:
Mkay. Does anyone else remember modems where you actually had to lift the telephone off the hook and place each end of the handset into a little rubber cup?
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acoustic coupler (wordwise translation from the german word) - and it was before my time, too ;)
 
looseliam said:
But Grandma's house still has a working rotary telephone - with cloth-covered wiring. She had to call the phone company and tell them they're using it for it to work.
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It's very likely that grandma is paying a surcharge for the "privilege" of using her old rotary phone. Keeping those old things is kinda expensive.
 
T-Rexx said:
It's very likely that grandma is paying a surcharge for the "privilege" of using her old rotary phone. Keeping those old things is kinda expensive.
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Nope. Grandpa worked for AT&T for a lifetime. Perks of retirement: free phone service =]
 
T-Rexx said:
Not quite sure what "700% slower" means.

Since "100% slower" would be no sound at all, I presume they must be playing it in reverse.
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It's a process called "Time Stretching". I use a program called "Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch", in which you can load a .wav file and have the program stretch it for you. It's really not "slowing down" the song, rather it's taking the sound data and stretching it out. Then through a complex set of algorithms which I will never understand in my lifetime, it blends the sounds together to make that ambient pad sound.

It's really fun to play around with when you're bored (or stoned), not to mention the program is free, so that's a plus. You can download random .wav files from sound boards and then stretch them out and make some cool ambient sounding stuff.

I remember one time I got really baked and did an extreme stretch of the Sesame Street theme song. It freaked me out man.
 
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