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hold up real quick...
öde:
An acoustic modem?
I'm 18! That means I'm an adult and as such I'm responsible for my own actions. Shit!
jhocking:
--- Quote from: öde on 01 Aug 2008, 09:26 ---An acoustic modem?
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I've never actually seen one, but I get a kick out of people not knowing modems started out like this:
You know how dialup modems are plugged into your phone line and make weird dinging and crackling noises? Well, really old modems didn't even connect directly to a phone jack, and made their noises into a phone cradled against their speakers.
celticgeek:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 01 Aug 2008, 09:14 ---I first programmed a computer at university in 1966 (like, really before the Internet, or even ARPAnet*, was invented) as part of my Engineering Science degree. But there's an older member here who is a computer geek - he could have started before then.
* mind you, ARPAnet was being designed at that time, and reached initial implementation in 1969.
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Yes, although my first real programming was done in 1973, which was the first time I was close to a computer I could get to. It was a Honeywell H600 (later I moved on to a Honeywell H6000). I had gotten interested in computers in 1964, but they were all hidden behind locked doors. I did write a heck of a lot of code in various languages over the years (Languages). And most of it written on teletype machine keyboards.
And moving on to DEC PDP machines, Vaxen, and others. I actually didn't get a person computer until 1992, since I had such powerful machines at my disposal at work.
Good times, those.
Ah, yes, acoustic modems,dot-matrix printers, punch cards, FORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL, I remember these.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: celticgeek on 01 Aug 2008, 10:53 ---Yes, although my first real programming was done in 1973, which was the first time I was close to a computer I could get to.
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Ah well, I had been earning my crust by programming for three years by then (I left my first job as a studio manager at the BBC to do it).
Vendetagainst:
--- Quote from: Peet on 01 Aug 2008, 06:15 ---In what way other than audibly could an ear lose its ability?
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I meant that I can actually hear the difference in pitch every time my ear rings. :laugh:
But, while everything I said was technically true, I'm not actually out of shape. Yay for that!
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