[vcf-midatlantic] Hayes 300bps SmartModem for museum exhbit?
Adam Michlin
amichlin at swerlin.com
Thu Jan 30 22:58:13 EST 2020
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 at 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
>>>
>>>
>
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