Good God we are over that. Some of the young'uns have never seen a telephone like that ...

[QUOTE=Chuck;299118]When I was at the University of Illinois in 1976 we all thought that the self-service card reader was the greatest thing going. It sat on the counter and was convenient for inputting small student jobs. Learning PL/C as part of my MS in Library Science.

The University of Illinois is still one of the greatest research libraries in the world. It is the 3rd largest academic library system in the United States. Harvard, Yale, U of I.[/QUOTE]

I'm at UofI, and I just took my CS final last Friday :smile:
(You'll notice my location <-- is the bounds for a corridor stretching from Chambana to Chicagoland, so that I'm generally in the box at any given part of the year.)

[QUOTE=Chuck;299115] in about 1978 ... You put the phone handset in the rubber cups. It was a 300 baud modem[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.syssrc.com/html/museum/modem_noakes300.shtml"]Like this[/URL], or its father? :smile: Check also the links on the lower right side of the page.

(didn't find the link to the father but I know what you are saying)

[QUOTE=chalsall;299108]Man... Kids these days... They just don't appreciate what is was like...

Walking five miles to the punched card reader...

Through blowing snow. Forty below...

Uphill in both directions.... :razz:[/QUOTE]
Writing Z80 machine code via decimal numbers....

[QUOTE=LaurV;299129][URL="http://www.syssrc.com/html/museum/modem_noakes300.shtml"]Like this[/URL], or its father? :smile: Check also the links on the lower right side of the page.

(didn't find the link to the father but I know what you are saying)[/QUOTE]

No it was this one
[URL]http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/X1612.99[/URL]

I remembered the name, the TI Silent 700. It had the modem built in behind the paper roll.

[QUOTE=Chuck;299115]Yes; in about 1978 I had a portable terminal from work to take home (was it a TI - Texas Instruments?) You put the phone handset in the rubber cups. It was a 300 baud modem and used a roll of thermal paper. It was like a little typewriter in a portable case.[/QUOTE]

We had a telephone connection like that at my high school, but it was only 75 baud IIRC. I know I can remember getting my first 1200 baud modem and being amazed at the speed. Course, since my early computers were a Timex-Sinclair 1000 with the 16K ram pack, an Atari 800 modified to 64K ram and the schools TRS-80, 1200 baud was more than enough.

[QUOTE=bcp19;299175]We had a telephone connection like that at my high school, but it was only 75 baud IIRC. I know I can remember getting my first 1200 baud modem and being amazed at the speed. Course, since my early computers were a Timex-Sinclair 1000 with the 16K ram pack, an Atari 800 modified to 64K ram and the schools TRS-80, 1200 baud was more than enough.[/QUOTE]

LOL... You know you're old when you nostalgically remember the thrill of upgrading from 110 baud... :smile:

When I first moved here to Barbados I had to pay something like $2000 USD a month for a (unreliable) 256 kb/s circuit. My house back in Canada at the time was dual homed, with a 1.5 mb/s ADSL connection and a 2 mb/s cable modem connection. Total cost of about $100 CAD a month.... :cry:

Hey kids!

By the time you are old geezers like us, there will have been many technological advances about which you'll love to reminisce for the then-kids, but human nature will (probably) be about the same. Study human nature -- that knowledge won't become as outdated as some other knowledge will.

[QUOTE=cheesehead;299180]Study human nature -- that knowledge won't become as outdated as some other knowledge will.[/QUOTE]

Wise words.

Perhaps that is why "The Prince" is still required reading....

Heh -- I was thinking "won't become outdated"... unless "we kids" advance technology to the point where we become merged with the machine anyways. :smile:

[QUOTE=Dubslow;299191]... unless "we kids" advance technology to the point where we become merged with the machine anyways. :smile:[/QUOTE]

Aren't you already?