On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 4:18 PM Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 1:07 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
You should have a commodore modem in the warehouse. The brown one that is 300 baud. It used to be next to the Commodore 64 years ago. It says Vicmodem.
Those are fantastic (that was my first modem in High School) but they have no dialing command set whatsoever. You had to pick up the phone, dial it yourself, then (quickly!) move the coiled handset cord from the handset to the VICmodem.
It was a long time until I got an auto-dial modem, and even then, it was a Ventel with an interactive menu so it worked fine with a dumb terminal but you couldn't dial from it with a terminal program (or UUCP, for that matter).
It has a firm place in Commodore history but has nothing to do with Hayes.
OK. Commodore 1670 modem, 1200 baud, but better ;)
-ethan
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