Hayes 300bps SmartModem for museum exhbit?
Hi Everyone, We're building a museum exhbit on historical modems. RIght now we have: Acoustic USR 300 bps USR Dual Standard Courier 14.4kbps (Sysop badged) Telebit T2500 Hayes 9600 bps USR Sportster V.92 The idea is feature the beginnings (acoustic) and ends (USR V.92) and several important modems in both the hobbyist space (the Dual Standard being very popular with BBSs) and the business space (Telebit). We'd like to replace the Hayes 9600 with a Hayes 300 SmartModem so people can see the modem that birthed the Hayes command set. Research indicates that the 300 is the first with the Hayes AT command set, but any corrections are welcome. Does anyone have a 300 they would be wiling to donate or lend? Museum exhibits will be changed much more frequently, although not on any set schedule as of yet, so any loan will most certainly be for less than one year. I'll add that, as it stands, this is a behind glass exhibit. There certainly is the possibility of connecting some of these (or other) modems to machines as we consider possible infrastructure capabilities on the museum. Thanks! -Adam
I have a 1200. Not what you asked for, but it's available just in case. ________________________________ From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> on behalf of Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:16 AM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Adam Michlin <amichlin@swerlin.com> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] Hayes 300bps SmartModem for museum exhbit? Hi Everyone, We're building a museum exhbit on historical modems. RIght now we have: Acoustic USR 300 bps USR Dual Standard Courier 14.4kbps (Sysop badged) Telebit T2500 Hayes 9600 bps USR Sportster V.92 The idea is feature the beginnings (acoustic) and ends (USR V.92) and several important modems in both the hobbyist space (the Dual Standard being very popular with BBSs) and the business space (Telebit). We'd like to replace the Hayes 9600 with a Hayes 300 SmartModem so people can see the modem that birthed the Hayes command set. Research indicates that the 300 is the first with the Hayes AT command set, but any corrections are welcome. Does anyone have a 300 they would be wiling to donate or lend? Museum exhibits will be changed much more frequently, although not on any set schedule as of yet, so any loan will most certainly be for less than one year. I'll add that, as it stands, this is a behind glass exhibit. There certainly is the possibility of connecting some of these (or other) modems to machines as we consider possible infrastructure capabilities on the museum. Thanks! -Adam
this is what i have in my archive.
On Jan 30, 2020, at 8:20 AM, Kelly Leavitt via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I have a 1200. Not what you asked for, but it's available just in case.
________________________________ From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> on behalf of Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:16 AM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Adam Michlin <amichlin@swerlin.com> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] Hayes 300bps SmartModem for museum exhbit?
Hi Everyone,
We're building a museum exhbit on historical modems. RIght now we have:
Acoustic
USR 300 bps
USR Dual Standard Courier 14.4kbps (Sysop badged)
Telebit T2500
Hayes 9600 bps
USR Sportster V.92
The idea is feature the beginnings (acoustic) and ends (USR V.92) and several important modems in both the hobbyist space (the Dual Standard being very popular with BBSs) and the business space (Telebit).
We'd like to replace the Hayes 9600 with a Hayes 300 SmartModem so people can see the modem that birthed the Hayes command set. Research indicates that the 300 is the first with the Hayes AT command set, but any corrections are welcome. Does anyone have a 300 they would be wiling to donate or lend?
Museum exhibits will be changed much more frequently, although not on any set schedule as of yet, so any loan will most certainly be for less than one year.
I'll add that, as it stands, this is a behind glass exhibit. There certainly is the possibility of connecting some of these (or other) modems to machines as we consider possible infrastructure capabilities on the museum.
Thanks!
-Adam
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 8:16 AM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
We're building a museum exhbit on historical modems. RIght now we have:
Acoustic
USR 300 bps
USR Dual Standard Courier 14.4kbps (Sysop badged)
Telebit T2500
Hayes 9600 bps
USR Sportster V.92
The idea is feature the beginnings (acoustic) and ends (USR V.92) and several important modems in both the hobbyist space (the Dual Standard being very popular with BBSs) and the business space (Telebit).
We'd like to replace the Hayes 9600 with a Hayes 300 SmartModem so people can see the modem that birthed the Hayes command set. Research indicates that the 300 is the first with the Hayes AT command set, but any corrections are welcome. Does anyone have a 300 they would be wiling to donate or lend?
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.
Museum exhibits will be changed much more frequently, although not on any set schedule as of yet, so any loan will most certainly be for less than one year.
I'll add that, as it stands, this is a behind glass exhibit. There certainly is the possibility of connecting some of these (or other) modems to machines as we consider possible infrastructure capabilities on the museum.
Thanks!
-Adam
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========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
I'm not sure if I still have it, but when Prodigy started becoming a formidable competitive service against AOL, they produced a retail kit with a "wall wart" modem that had the entire modem circuitry in the wall plug. It then had two cables coming out of it, one for the phone jack, and one that terminated in an Apple ADB plug. For the latter, they also provided DB9 and DB25 adapters that you put on the ADB plug to allow them to connect to standard serial ports. Something like that could fall under the "historical modem" category for the period of time when "the Internet™" was bought as a kit for your computer. On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 1:08 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 8:16 AM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
We're building a museum exhbit on historical modems. RIght now we have:
Acoustic
USR 300 bps
USR Dual Standard Courier 14.4kbps (Sysop badged)
Telebit T2500
Hayes 9600 bps
USR Sportster V.92
The idea is feature the beginnings (acoustic) and ends (USR V.92) and several important modems in both the hobbyist space (the Dual Standard being very popular with BBSs) and the business space (Telebit).
We'd like to replace the Hayes 9600 with a Hayes 300 SmartModem so people can see the modem that birthed the Hayes command set. Research indicates that the 300 is the first with the Hayes AT command set, but any corrections are welcome. Does anyone have a 300 they would be wiling to donate or lend?
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.
Museum exhibits will be changed much more frequently, although not on any set schedule as of yet, so any loan will most certainly be for less than one year.
I'll add that, as it stands, this is a behind glass exhibit. There certainly is the possibility of connecting some of these (or other) modems to machines as we consider possible infrastructure capabilities on the museum.
Thanks!
-Adam
--
========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
If you would like some really early Hayes examples, I have a couple of these: http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/DC%20Hayes/103/103%20Modem.ht... and a couple of these: http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/DC%20Hayes/100/Micromodem.htm with the microcouplers. I'd be happy to loan one of each, but I probably won't get up to Wall until VCF. Bill S.
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 2:56 PM William Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
If you would like some really early Hayes examples, I have a couple of these:
http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/DC%20Hayes/103/103%20Modem.ht...
I remember DAAs. I worked at a place that had one screwed to the wall (long unused by that point - I don't think it was even ours but from a previous tenant). -ethan
I'm learning more and more. Since the exhibit is primarily motivated to honor CBBS and the passing of Randy Seuss, I'm doing some research on the modem originally used for CBBS. Was it the Hayes (internal S100) listed below? Seuss himself just mentions a "Hayes 300 baud modem card" at: https://www.chinet.com/html/cbbs.html I had thought to limit the exhibit to only external modems, but the direct connection to CBBS is hard to pass up. I'm even thinking we can do something slightly bigger to honor Seuss, but that's getting ahead of things (yet ideas are always welcome!). On 1/30/2020 2:54 PM, William Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
If you would like some really early Hayes examples, I have a couple of these:
http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/DC%20Hayes/103/103%20Modem.ht...
and a couple of these:
http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/DC%20Hayes/100/Micromodem.htm
with the microcouplers. I'd be happy to loan one of each, but I probably won't get up to Wall until VCF.
Bill S.
That would be very cool, as I think it’s the first product Hayes released. On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 11:29 AM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'm learning more and more. Since the exhibit is primarily motivated to honor CBBS and the passing of Randy Seuss, I'm doing some research on the modem originally used for CBBS.
Was it the Hayes (internal S100) listed below? Seuss himself just mentions a "Hayes 300 baud modem card" at:
https://www.chinet.com/html/cbbs.html
I had thought to limit the exhibit to only external modems, but the direct connection to CBBS is hard to pass up. I'm even thinking we can do something slightly bigger to honor Seuss, but that's getting ahead of things (yet ideas are always welcome!).
On 1/30/2020 2:54 PM, William Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
If you would like some really early Hayes examples, I have a couple of these:
http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/DC%20Hayes/103/103%20Modem.ht...
and a couple of these:
http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/DC%20Hayes/100/Micromodem.htm
with the microcouplers. I'd be happy to loan one of each, but I
probably won't get
up to Wall until VCF.
Bill S.
That was the modem I mentioned as my assumption of what you wanted, but I only have the later Apple II internal modem with the external microcoupler. S100 stuff was not a thing i dealt with in my small corner of the world. Tony
I'm learning more and more. Since the exhibit is primarily motivated to honor CBBS and the passing of Randy Seuss, I'm doing some research on the modem originally used for CBBS.
Was it the Hayes (internal S100) listed below? Seuss himself just mentions a "Hayes 300 baud modem card"
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. -ethan
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
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
Hi Everyone, Thanks for all the responses both public and private! We have an offer of a 1200 bps Hayes which will be plan A unless someone else is interested in donating a 300 bps Hayes. We're asking for the Hayes specifically to show people that the "Hayes command set" really had a "Hayes" hardware origin. Each modem has been selected for historical reasons to tell a story. We do have a lot modems in the warehouse and we are working on putting them in one space, but it should come as no suprise that most of the modems are fairly uninteresting. Most imporantly, it has been pointed out that I gave short shrift to the Telebit referring to it as merely a "business" modem. It was a very popular modem for Unix types using UUCP <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP> particularly because of its early success at 9600 bps (in a 2400bps world) through the proprietary PEP protocol. I also believe PEP was valued for some time even past the standards V.32 and V.32bis as a more reliable protocol for such things. I actually grew up with Telebit modems as my father's company provided them to employees for remote access to 370 mainframes. I was also a sysop and still remember the day my Courier Dual Standard Sysop modem arrived (1/2 price off at $500! 14.4kpbs HST and V.32bis!!!). All meaning this is a very special exhibit for me which is a small tribute to the memory of Randy Suess <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Suess> co-founder of the CBBS bulletin board <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBBS>. Keep the suggestions coming! If we can't use it for this exhibit, another exhbit is soon to come! Thanks again, -Adam On 1/30/2020 8:16 AM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hi Everyone,
We're building a museum exhbit on historical modems. RIght now we have:
Acoustic
USR 300 bps
USR Dual Standard Courier 14.4kbps (Sysop badged)
Telebit T2500
Hayes 9600 bps
USR Sportster V.92
The idea is feature the beginnings (acoustic) and ends (USR V.92) and several important modems in both the hobbyist space (the Dual Standard being very popular with BBSs) and the business space (Telebit).
We'd like to replace the Hayes 9600 with a Hayes 300 SmartModem so people can see the modem that birthed the Hayes command set. Research indicates that the 300 is the first with the Hayes AT command set, but any corrections are welcome. Does anyone have a 300 they would be wiling to donate or lend?
Museum exhibits will be changed much more frequently, although not on any set schedule as of yet, so any loan will most certainly be for less than one year.
I'll add that, as it stands, this is a behind glass exhibit. There certainly is the possibility of connecting some of these (or other) modems to machines as we consider possible infrastructure capabilities on the museum.
Thanks!
-Adam
While I’m guessing you wanted the Hayes 80-103A, the best I can do is a Hayes Micromodem II from 1979/1980 with the Microcoupler. This is the Apple II card with the external microcoupler. If that’s what you’re looking for I can bring it to the museum this weekend. If not, then... :-) Either way let me know. Tony Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 30, 2020, at 9:13 PM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for all the responses both public and private! We have an offer of a 1200 bps Hayes which will be plan A unless someone else is interested in donating a 300 bps Hayes.
We're asking for the Hayes specifically to show people that the "Hayes command set" really had a "Hayes" hardware origin. Each modem has been selected for historical reasons to tell a story. We do have a lot modems in the warehouse and we are working on putting them in one space, but it should come as no suprise that most of the modems are fairly uninteresting.
Most imporantly, it has been pointed out that I gave short shrift to the Telebit referring to it as merely a "business" modem. It was a very popular modem for Unix types using UUCP <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP> particularly because of its early success at 9600 bps (in a 2400bps world) through the proprietary PEP protocol. I also believe PEP was valued for some time even past the standards V.32 and V.32bis as a more reliable protocol for such things.
I actually grew up with Telebit modems as my father's company provided them to employees for remote access to 370 mainframes. I was also a sysop and still remember the day my Courier Dual Standard Sysop modem arrived (1/2 price off at $500! 14.4kpbs HST and V.32bis!!!). All meaning this is a very special exhibit for me which is a small tribute to the memory of Randy Suess <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Suess> co-founder of the CBBS bulletin board <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBBS>.
Keep the suggestions coming! If we can't use it for this exhibit, another exhbit is soon to come!
Thanks again,
-Adam
On 1/30/2020 8:16 AM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote: Hi Everyone,
We're building a museum exhbit on historical modems. RIght now we have:
Acoustic
USR 300 bps
USR Dual Standard Courier 14.4kbps (Sysop badged)
Telebit T2500
Hayes 9600 bps
USR Sportster V.92
The idea is feature the beginnings (acoustic) and ends (USR V.92) and several important modems in both the hobbyist space (the Dual Standard being very popular with BBSs) and the business space (Telebit).
We'd like to replace the Hayes 9600 with a Hayes 300 SmartModem so people can see the modem that birthed the Hayes command set. Research indicates that the 300 is the first with the Hayes AT command set, but any corrections are welcome. Does anyone have a 300 they would be wiling to donate or lend?
Museum exhibits will be changed much more frequently, although not on any set schedule as of yet, so any loan will most certainly be for less than one year.
I'll add that, as it stands, this is a behind glass exhibit. There certainly is the possibility of connecting some of these (or other) modems to machines as we consider possible infrastructure capabilities on the museum.
Thanks!
-Adam
That'd be great for the Apple II when we want to connect it to the world! I'm pleased to announce that an anonymous person has offered a Hayes 300bps Smartmodem on loan for the duration of exhibit. This is especially thrilling for me as I've worked in the warehouse for the last three years to first find all the extra hardware (anything more than 3) to sell at VCF East two years ago and so much boxed software at VCF East last year. To anyone who questioned me with "What if VCF needs it?" I always said putting the equipment out in the world gives it new life and, should that we ever need that piece of equipment, any number of members would be thrilled to step up and lend or donate *especially* if we help them acquire the equipment of their dreams year after year. Anecdote is not data, but I'll take the anecdote. :) Speaking of which, I'll drop just a slight hint as to the surplus work being done this year in preparation VCF East 2020. If you like video games, you'll want to be there first thing when the VCF surplus equipment sale opens (details of which will be announced very soon!). So, yeah, anyone got a Xerox 8010/Star mouse? ;) On 1/30/2020 9:48 PM, Tony Bogan wrote:
While I’m guessing you wanted the Hayes 80-103A, the best I can do is a Hayes Micromodem II from 1979/1980 with the Microcoupler. This is the Apple II card with the external microcoupler. If that’s what you’re looking for I can bring it to the museum this weekend. If not, then... :-) Either way let me know.
Tony
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 30, 2020, at 9:13 PM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for all the responses both public and private! We have an offer of a 1200 bps Hayes which will be plan A unless someone else is interested in donating a 300 bps Hayes.
We're asking for the Hayes specifically to show people that the "Hayes command set" really had a "Hayes" hardware origin. Each modem has been selected for historical reasons to tell a story. We do have a lot modems in the warehouse and we are working on putting them in one space, but it should come as no suprise that most of the modems are fairly uninteresting.
Most imporantly, it has been pointed out that I gave short shrift to the Telebit referring to it as merely a "business" modem. It was a very popular modem for Unix types using UUCP <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP> particularly because of its early success at 9600 bps (in a 2400bps world) through the proprietary PEP protocol. I also believe PEP was valued for some time even past the standards V.32 and V.32bis as a more reliable protocol for such things.
I actually grew up with Telebit modems as my father's company provided them to employees for remote access to 370 mainframes. I was also a sysop and still remember the day my Courier Dual Standard Sysop modem arrived (1/2 price off at $500! 14.4kpbs HST and V.32bis!!!). All meaning this is a very special exhibit for me which is a small tribute to the memory of Randy Suess <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Suess> co-founder of the CBBS bulletin board <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBBS>.
Keep the suggestions coming! If we can't use it for this exhibit, another exhbit is soon to come!
Thanks again,
-Adam
On 1/30/2020 8:16 AM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote: Hi Everyone,
We're building a museum exhbit on historical modems. RIght now we have:
Acoustic
USR 300 bps
USR Dual Standard Courier 14.4kbps (Sysop badged)
Telebit T2500
Hayes 9600 bps
USR Sportster V.92
The idea is feature the beginnings (acoustic) and ends (USR V.92) and several important modems in both the hobbyist space (the Dual Standard being very popular with BBSs) and the business space (Telebit).
We'd like to replace the Hayes 9600 with a Hayes 300 SmartModem so people can see the modem that birthed the Hayes command set. Research indicates that the 300 is the first with the Hayes AT command set, but any corrections are welcome. Does anyone have a 300 they would be wiling to donate or lend?
Museum exhibits will be changed much more frequently, although not on any set schedule as of yet, so any loan will most certainly be for less than one year.
I'll add that, as it stands, this is a behind glass exhibit. There certainly is the possibility of connecting some of these (or other) modems to machines as we consider possible infrastructure capabilities on the museum.
Thanks!
-Adam
On 1/30/20 9:13 PM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Most imporantly, it has been pointed out that I gave short shrift to the Telebit referring to it as merely a "business" modem. It was a very popular modem for Unix types using UUCP <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP> particularly because of its early success at 9600 bps (in a 2400bps world) through the proprietary PEP protocol. I also believe PEP was valued for some time even past the standards V.32 and V.32bis as a more reliable protocol for such things.
Oh those were indeed "the days". :-) I've run lots of Usenet news servers, starting in the mid-80s all on modems using UUCP before moving into the ISP world and doing it over IP. In fact at Digex in the early days, our primary news feed was done on a "side channel" modem to give it dedicated bandwidth. A pair of Telebit Trailblazers would easily move 4MB/hr. PEP was wonderful. With UUCP, the line turnaround time was a real problem; on ordinary modems it would really kill UUCP performance. Telebit Trailblazers took care of that by spoofing parts of the UUCP G protocol, unbeknownst to the host, and that sped things up considerably. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
Hi Doug, Thanks so much for the offer! We're all good and already have a donation. Thanks again! -Adam On 2/1/2020 12:17 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I have a 300 baud smart modem to donate. DC
On 1/30/2020 8:16 AM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hi Everyone,
We're building a museum exhbit on historical modems. RIght now we have:
Acoustic
USR 300 bps
USR Dual Standard Courier 14.4kbps (Sysop badged)
Telebit T2500
Hayes 9600 bps
USR Sportster V.92
The idea is feature the beginnings (acoustic) and ends (USR V.92) and several important modems in both the hobbyist space (the Dual Standard being very popular with BBSs) and the business space (Telebit).
We'd like to replace the Hayes 9600 with a Hayes 300 SmartModem so people can see the modem that birthed the Hayes command set. Research indicates that the 300 is the first with the Hayes AT command set, but any corrections are welcome. Does anyone have a 300 they would be wiling to donate or lend?
Museum exhibits will be changed much more frequently, although not on any set schedule as of yet, so any loan will most certainly be for less than one year.
I'll add that, as it stands, this is a behind glass exhibit. There certainly is the possibility of connecting some of these (or other) modems to machines as we consider possible infrastructure capabilities on the museum.
Thanks!
-Adam
Hi Doug, So the modem that was gifted to us seems to have disappeared (or is in permanent hold) in Fedex's facilities. If the offer is still valid, we'd love to take you up on it. No worries if not. Thanks much either way! -Adam On 2/1/2020 12:17 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I have a 300 baud smart modem to donate. DC
On 1/30/2020 8:16 AM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hi Everyone,
We're building a museum exhbit on historical modems. RIght now we have:
Acoustic
USR 300 bps
USR Dual Standard Courier 14.4kbps (Sysop badged)
Telebit T2500
Hayes 9600 bps
USR Sportster V.92
The idea is feature the beginnings (acoustic) and ends (USR V.92) and several important modems in both the hobbyist space (the Dual Standard being very popular with BBSs) and the business space (Telebit).
We'd like to replace the Hayes 9600 with a Hayes 300 SmartModem so people can see the modem that birthed the Hayes command set. Research indicates that the 300 is the first with the Hayes AT command set, but any corrections are welcome. Does anyone have a 300 they would be wiling to donate or lend?
Museum exhibits will be changed much more frequently, although not on any set schedule as of yet, so any loan will most certainly be for less than one year.
I'll add that, as it stands, this is a behind glass exhibit. There certainly is the possibility of connecting some of these (or other) modems to machines as we consider possible infrastructure capabilities on the museum.
Thanks!
-Adam
I had (still have) a Hayes Micromodem II ... I believe it had the command set. You can see the manual here: https://apple2online.com/web_documents/hayes_micromodem_ii_owner__s_guide.pd... On Thursday, January 30, 2020, 8:16:38 AM EST, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: Hi Everyone, We're building a museum exhbit on historical modems. RIght now we have: Acoustic USR 300 bps USR Dual Standard Courier 14.4kbps (Sysop badged) Telebit T2500 Hayes 9600 bps USR Sportster V.92 The idea is feature the beginnings (acoustic) and ends (USR V.92) and several important modems in both the hobbyist space (the Dual Standard being very popular with BBSs) and the business space (Telebit). We'd like to replace the Hayes 9600 with a Hayes 300 SmartModem so people can see the modem that birthed the Hayes command set. Research indicates that the 300 is the first with the Hayes AT command set, but any corrections are welcome. Does anyone have a 300 they would be wiling to donate or lend? Museum exhibits will be changed much more frequently, although not on any set schedule as of yet, so any loan will most certainly be for less than one year. I'll add that, as it stands, this is a behind glass exhibit. There certainly is the possibility of connecting some of these (or other) modems to machines as we consider possible infrastructure capabilities on the museum. Thanks! -Adam
HI Everyone, Thanks so much for the all offers. To update everyone, we have a 300bps Hayes SmartModem coming next week to replace the 9600 on display and I found a CIB 1200bps Hayes SmartModem in the warehouse (to be saved for another day). We also added a PMMI S100 (internal) modem to the exhibit that was actually used in a CBBS back in the day that was graciously donated by a member. This is the most important touch in connecting the exhibit to our honoring of the passing of Randy Seuss. The story goes that Suess hacked the donor's original PMMI modem and our donor sent it back to to PMMI for repair only to get a replacement. That replacement is on display in the museum and, with hope, will get put in one of our many S100 machines in the future. Best wishes, -Adam On 2/15/2020 8:49 PM, m simons wrote:
I had (still have) a Hayes Micromodem II ... I believe it had the command set. You can see the manual here: https://apple2online.com/web_documents/hayes_micromodem_ii_owner__s_guide.pd... On Thursday, January 30, 2020, 8:16:38 AM EST, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
We're building a museum exhbit on historical modems. RIght now we have:
Acoustic
USR 300 bps
USR Dual Standard Courier 14.4kbps (Sysop badged)
Telebit T2500
Hayes 9600 bps
USR Sportster V.92
The idea is feature the beginnings (acoustic) and ends (USR V.92) and several important modems in both the hobbyist space (the Dual Standard being very popular with BBSs) and the business space (Telebit).
We'd like to replace the Hayes 9600 with a Hayes 300 SmartModem so people can see the modem that birthed the Hayes command set. Research indicates that the 300 is the first with the Hayes AT command set, but any corrections are welcome. Does anyone have a 300 they would be wiling to donate or lend?
Museum exhibits will be changed much more frequently, although not on any set schedule as of yet, so any loan will most certainly be for less than one year.
I'll add that, as it stands, this is a behind glass exhibit. There certainly is the possibility of connecting some of these (or other) modems to machines as we consider possible infrastructure capabilities on the museum.
Thanks!
-Adam
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