16 Dec
2010
16 Dec
'10
5:49 a.m.
On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:44:41 pm Ralf Mardorf did opine:
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 17:42 -0500, gene heskett
wrote:
Never did that. My first modem was a 120 baud device, but it was wired.
Hooked up to the precursor to the coco3 I'm running right now, in the
basement, logged into it over a serial port using minicom on this linux
box.
history being written by the winners, so the
whole thing may have
been white washed to a high polish by now.
People who put their telephone handset into a thingy to be able to do
data telecommunication, before there was the Internet for public, tend
to be more sceptic/paranoid than youngsters ;). The reason for this is,
that at that time, we might be hackers our self. I guess we can't
compare the easy hacking that was possible at C64 times (or Amiga ;),
with today data protection :D.
The amiga is actually fairly late model here folks, I started with a quest
super elf I built from a kit. Circa '77.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
LILO, you've got me on my knees!
-- David Black, dblack(a)pilot.njin.net, with apologies to Derek and the
Dominos, and Werner Almsberger