10 Mar
2017
10 Mar
'17
6:31 a.m.
It's not hard to whistle a handshake. I've been able to get a modem to connect.
Of course actual data is out of the question. It's just loud sharp tones, then just
match pitch, the other modem will change a few times and just match it.
It was a silly trick whistling to modems, but these days nobody has one. And I can't
say I miss dialup.
On March 10, 2017 5:29:29 AM GMT+08:00, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote:
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Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Interesting: I've heard this same story, but
told about TIPs and the
ARPANET. A computer at BBN was set up to regularly dial all the TIP
modem lines, to check that they were working. One line was always
down,
so they listened in, and heard some human say
"it's just that pevert
with the whistle again".
I wonder which one was the original: anyone know for sure?
Now that takes me back; urban myth, because the calling modem didn't
squeak until the called modem did.
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suffer."