I believe that external zoom modens are still for sale and support the old AT commands
cheers DS . On Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:36:36 -0400 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 7:02 AM, David McMackins > <cont...@mcmackins.org> wrote: > > My laptop has a hardware modem, internal. It's a Pentium III > machine, so > > I'm not sure what risks that may imply about it being a Winmodem > I've > > heard such nasty things about. > > Winmodems were simplified devices which got the nod for systems > because they were cheaper, and PC vendors all looking to shave > pennies > on what it cost to make a system. They were called Winmodems > because > the stuff left out of the modem in hardware was supplied in software > by Windows. If you weren't *running* Windows, you had problems. > > Does your laptop have a serial port? If the internal modem is a > Winmodem, you might be able to score a Hayes or USR external modem > from eBay or the like, connect it to the serial port, and not use > the > internal modem for this. > > > I will look into Net-Tamer and Procom. Telix was the software I > had > > found the defunct website for. I'm not sure if I want to trust a > mirror. > > What I used to use was Telix. It should be possible for find a > working copy. Essentially, DOS comm packages needed to communicate > with a modem that supported the Hayes AT command set. When you > selected something to call from the comm program's list, the program > would open the port the modem was connected to and send something > alike "ATDT<phone number>" to it. AT woke up the modem, and DT told > it to dial <phone number>, and a connection would be established. > > > As far as which BBSes are still alive, there exist directories for > > finding them, and they are apparently popular among people who are > > interested in vintage tech. A colleague of mine knows more. > > There aren't very many. There is a Yahoo group called 80sBBS > populated by old time BBS folks you might want to look at. A > current > poster has been talking about getting his old Commodore 64 BBS back > on > line. (And one of his challenges was client the user could use that > would reproduce the C64 experience. It turns out there's an > applicable open source offering.) > > The problem that such efforts encounter is that very few folks who > might call BBSes still *have* modems to do dial up access. Most of > the BBSes on line now I'm aware of offer telnet access instead. > > I still have a US Robotics 56K modem in a parts drawer, but I no > longer have a landline to hook it up to. My phone service is VOIP. > It might be possible to get the USR to place calls over VOIP, but I > have nothing to call using it, and it's not worth the effort to > experiment. > > > David E. McMackins II > ______ > Dennis > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ Doctor Warns: Stop Eating This Vegetable Immediately Gundry MD http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5ad3729f1b2c1729e56f7st01duc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
