Back in 1973 I was hired by Tymshare to "hack" Tymnet and some of the
various systems (XDS 940, PDP-10s) - I was 15. Tymshare provided me
with a Teletype ASR-33 (with the built in tape punch and reader). I had
an AJ 300 baud acoustic coupler. We had a second phone line installed,
'cause my dad was tired of picking up the phone and hearing tones. I
ended up rewiring the house phones so I could put the terminal in my room.
When I went to the Pentagon in '79 I was in charge of PENT-TIP and got
to take home and travel with a TI Silent700 with a built in acoustic
coupler. We had a bank of 300/1200 baud modems on PENT-TIP. Our IMP
was connected to the Arpanet via a 56K modem that was the size of 5 foot
tall 19" rack! Back in those days it seems TIP phone numbers were
closely guarded treasure.
I still remember when I got an LS ADM-3A (no more finding rolls of
thermal paper). I still have it, though I don't know why...
Geoff
On 2/17/20 11:20 AM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote:
On Feb 17, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Gene LeDuc <gle...@sdsu.edu> wrote:
I was a student worker at a computer lab at USC in the 70s and a buddy had a
system operator job at ISI in Marina Del Rey. One day he connected to his
office from my lab via a 300baud acoustic modem and then got on the ARPA-NET.
From there he connected to a system called ATLAS in the UK. I had no idea what
to do at the prompt so I typed
?
to get list of commands. My global eyes were opened when the response was
Pardon?
instead of the usual rude or cryptic error message that I was used to. There
was a big world out there and we were definitely not in Kansas anymore!
It was about 1980. My C-128 came with one of those CIS snap packs to let you
test connecting to the 'net via Compuserve. So I connected with my 300baud
modem and..whoa!!!
When I got my next computer (and first portable) shortly thereafter (a TRS
Model 100) I got acoustic cups for it, and suddenly I was connected from
anywhere and everywhere there was a phone - including from my job at a Fotomat
booth (remember those?) :-)
Anne
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