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Comment on Circa 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Modem by Gary Cameron

Gary Cameron — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:03:14 +0000

Awesome demo. I have an old 300 baud acoustic coupler that has a white plastic case. I would love to see if I can use it to connect over my Vonage VOIP service.

By the way, that telephone you are using is way too new. Somewhere around here I have an old dial phone with 45 foot handset cord. It even has the special switch for use with a party line!

Comment on Cessna 172 Weight & Balance Excel Worksheet by Eric

Eric — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:07:47 +0000

Wow thank you so much!!!!! Had to change quite a bit around for my 2008 cessna 172sp but it was a lot easier than making one from scratch. If anyone wants my updated one for the 2008 cessna 172 sp i can email it to you.

Comment on Python script to get SSL Certificate information by Alex

Alex — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:28:25 +0000

Thank you very much!
Your work is very much appreciated!

Comment on Cessna 172 Weight & Balance Excel Worksheet by Derek

Derek — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:15:15 +0000

I just bought a 1966 Skyhawk and this was EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for. Thank you!

Comment on Circa 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Modem by Anonymous Middle Aged Man

Anonymous Middle Aged Man — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:04:19 +0000

Another hit from wimp.com. Fantastic! My high school computer teacher used to whistle into the modem to get it print characters–all garbage–to the screen (a TV, of course). I wonder if anyone was ever a good enough whistler to write anything intelligible. Now that would be something. Thanks for posting this great vid.

Comment on Circa 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Modem by Live Oak

Live Oak — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:52:37 +0000

Great! Just saw the video on wimp.com. I’m of the vintage where I’ve used a few acoustically coupled modems, all in molded plastic enclosures. To see one this old packaged in a fine wooden enclosure is a treat.

Comment on Circa 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Modem by jqb

jqb — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:17:00 +0000

The first Acoustic Coupler was not built by Livermore until 1968, so this is no older than that. I used these before I had access to 1200 baud modems so I found this fairly ordinary and not worthy of all the “ooh aah”. The fact that you’re able to connect to the internet through it is quite plebian … it’s the remote computer that’s connected to the internet, and is simply exchanging text with your terminal via the phone line / coupler. I was present at UCLA when Charley Kline made the first network login, into the SRI node, via IMPs … now that was something to be excited about.

Comment on 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A modem – followup by Garrett

Garrett — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:29:07 +0000

Absolutely superb. A beautiful piece of historic hardware to own. Thanks for sharing. I’d never even realised RS-232 was that old. Amazing how it has stood the test of time.

Comment on Atlanta Prison Farm by roger

roger — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:12:26 +0000

Willie B is buried there adjacent to Maud the elephant.
At one time the prisoners grew all their own food, had cows and hogs .

Comment on Atlanta Prison Farm by Corinne

Corinne — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:44:59 +0000

Mrs. Brannen you mentioned that the prison farm was an aweome operation. At that time I did not know about actual operation/production and I would be interested when you have available time.