[Dshield] P.S. Re: Your father's internet

[Rick Sewill]

We were excited when we got a couple 300 baud Acoustic couplers and
Decwriters in College.  People had to sign up to use them.

Otherwise we used 110 baud acoustic couplers, ttys, and paper tape?

Does this mean I am part of your father's Internet?

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 08:35 -0600, WebMaster at commerco.net wrote:
> This thread certainly brings back a lot of old memories...
> 
> My oldest memory of a 300 baud modem, was the one we used on the 
> HP3000 Series II in the MIS department of a food service company I 
> managed back in 1979-1981 which was installed for one of our 
> programmers, who needed to "telecommute" because of a condition he battled.
> 
> I remember reading an article back then about this new "TCP" protocol 
> coming down the line to replace ARPA net.  In 1985, I remember going 
> to classes at my new employer (a major manufacturer of computing and 
> measurement products) to learn all about the basics and how to 
> implement those TCP/IP networks.
> 
> How time passes and technology advances.
> 
> At 06:22 AM 7/23/2007, you wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: list-bounces at lists.dshield.org
> > > [mailto:list-bounces at lists.dshield.org] On Behalf Of George Capehart
> > > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 7:16 PM
> > > To: General DShield Discussion List
> > > Subject: Re: [Dshield] P.S. Re: Your father's internet
> > >
> > > Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:13:48 EDT, George Capehart said:
> > > >
> > > >> *grin*  Nooooooooo!  No one would send spam over uucp!!!  ;)
> > > >
> > > > "You're *WRONG*, tuna breath!" :)
> > >
> > > <snip the good old days>
> > >
> > > *wince* Doh!  My bad.  I misphrased my comment.  The image I
> > > had in my head at the time I wrote it was a botherder trying
> > > to blast the typical image-based spam messages over 1200 baud
> > > modems . . .  :>  (Yes, I know it's possible to send uucp
> > > traffic over other media.  Done it myself on an internal
> > > network.  But my main association is with uucp over dialup,
> > > and in the low-budget early days it was 300 baud or 1200 baud . . . ).
> > >
> > > But thanks for the URL to the wikipedia entry.  I'd forgotten
> > > all about them!  Can't believe it . . .  ;(
> >
> >I can't believe you folks remember all that you did!  I remember a
> >300baud modem on a Morrow MD/2 I had way back when and that's about it.
> 
> 
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