• Episode 14: Christmas Eve shenanigans

    From Digital Man@VERT to TechDorks on Thursday, December 24, 2015 04:22:43
    At least one more episodes from your Dorks of Tech in 2015: http://mp3.techdorks.net/episodes/techdorks-2015-12-24-ep14.mp3

    digital man

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Digital Man on Thursday, December 24, 2015 11:19:55
    Re: Episode 14: Christmas Eve shenanigans
    By: Digital Man to TechDorks on Thu Dec 24 2015 04:22:43

    At least one more episodes from your Dorks of Tech in 2015: http://mp3.techdorks.net/episodes/techdorks-2015-12-24-ep14.mp3

    Regarding modems, I always liked the fact that external modems had lights. I eventually started using internal modems, but I always avoided software-based internal modems. I tended to like US Robotics internal modems, since they always seemed to offer a hardware-based internal modem. I don't remember having many problems with internal modems requiring a reboot.

    I seem to remember seeing a few internal modems that had a front panel with modem lights that would fit into a 3.5" floppy drive bay, but those were few and far between.


    I still have yet to see the new Star Wars movie, but I plan to see it at some point. I've heard generally good things about it so far, and that it's better than the prequel movies.

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Nightfox on Thursday, December 24, 2015 16:37:26
    Re: Episode 14: Christmas Eve shenanigans
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Dec 24 2015 11:19 am

    Re: Episode 14: Christmas Eve shenanigans
    By: Digital Man to TechDorks on Thu Dec 24 2015 04:22:43

    At least one more episodes from your Dorks of Tech in 2015: http://mp3.techdorks.net/episodes/techdorks-2015-12-24-ep14.mp3

    Regarding modems, I always liked the fact that external modems had lights.
    I eventually started using internal modems, but I always avoided software-based internal modems. I tended to like US Robotics internal modems, since they always seemed to offer a hardware-based internal modem.
    I don't remember having many problems with internal modems requiring a reboot.

    It wasn't often that an internal modem had a problem requiring a reboot, but it would happen from time to time. External modems too, but at least you could just turn them off and back on again without affecting the computer. Also the LEDs on the external modems could clue you into what the problem was or the severity (e.g. no lights usually meant the modem was dead or dying).

    I seem to remember seeing a few internal modems that had a front panel with modem lights that would fit into a 3.5" floppy drive bay, but those were few and far between.

    I've never seen one of those. Definitely a cool feature, but so few users would even know what the lights meant, it was kind of a geek-feature anyway. I use a USRobotics (Sportster) external modem for my BBS dial-up line today and often check the LEDs out of habit. Oh, and when I don't want it to pick up the line, I just turn it off. :-)

    I still have yet to see the new Star Wars movie, but I plan to see it at some point. I've heard generally good things about it so far, and that it's better than the prequel movies.

    Soon... soon. :-)

    digital man

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Digital Man on Friday, December 25, 2015 11:03:56
    Re: Episode 14: Christmas Eve shenanigans
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Dec 24 2015 16:37:26

    I seem to remember seeing a few internal modems that had a front panel
    with modem lights that would fit into a 3.5" floppy drive bay, but
    those were few and far between.

    I've never seen one of those. Definitely a cool feature, but so few users would even know what the lights meant, it was kind of a geek-feature anyway. I use a USRobotics (Sportster) external modem for my BBS dial-up line today and often check the LEDs out of habit. Oh, and when I don't want it to pick up the line, I just turn it off. :-)

    That's true, being able to easily turn it off is another benefit of an external modem. :)

    Nightfox

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  • From Jon Justvig@VERT/STEPPING to Digital Man on Friday, December 25, 2015 17:17:00
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    At least one more episodes from your Dorks of Tech in 2015: http://mp3.techdorks.net/episodes/techdorks-2015-12-24-ep14.mp3

    Another note of excellence! <grin>

    Sincerely,
    Jon Justvig

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  • From Jon Justvig@VERT/STEPPING to Nightfox on Friday, December 25, 2015 17:17:00
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    Re: Episode 14: Christmas Eve shenanigans
    By: Digital Man to TechDorks on Thu Dec 24 2015 04:22:43

    Spoler ALERT!!!

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  • From Deuce@VERT/SYNCNIX to Nightfox on Friday, December 25, 2015 17:33:16
    Re: Episode 14: Christmas Eve shenanigans
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Dec 24 2015 11:19 am

    I still have yet to see the new Star Wars movie, but I plan to see it at some point. I've heard generally good things about it so far, and that it's better than the prequel movies.

    It's absolutely more "Star Wars" than the prequels, and it's better than Episode I hands down. As for being better than the other two, a lot of the answer to that depends on how you define "better".

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  • From Deuce@VERT/SYNCNIX to Jon Justvig on Friday, December 25, 2015 17:34:17
    Re: Episode 14: Christmas Eve
    By: Jon Justvig to Nightfox on Fri Dec 25 2015 05:17 pm

    Re: Episode 14: Christmas Eve shenanigans
    By: Digital Man to TechDorks on Thu Dec 24 2015 04:22:43

    Spoler ALERT!!!

    Eh? There's no spolers in it.

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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Saturday, December 26, 2015 07:38:11
    Re: Episode 14: Christmas Eve shenanigans
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Dec 24 2015 11:19 am

    Regarding modems, I always liked the fact that external modems had lights. I eventually started using internal modems, but I always avoided software-based internal modems. I tended to like US Robotics internal modems, since they always seemed to offer a hardware-based internal modem.

    I used whatever I could get my hands on, as my dial-up BBS was made up of cast-offs. I started with Anchor 2400 Sportsmodems, after a company bought 50 of them for a dial-up WAN and tossed them shortly afterwards when they realized they needed error correction. I saved a handful of them from the garbage and gave them out with a copy of COMMO with my BBS number in the dialing directory.

    Then, I had an old Telebit T3000, every once in a while I'd have a user with one of them connect and they'd make a really weird sound when they trained.

    Then, an assortment of USR Sportsters as people upgraded -- first a 14.4 when the 28.8s came out, then a 28.8 when they went 56K.

    I've got a cast off USR Courier V.Everything now, but no callers. :)

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  • From Jon Justvig@VERT/STEPPING to Deuce on Saturday, December 26, 2015 12:40:00
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    Re: Episode 14: Christmas Eve
    By: Jon Justvig to Nightfox on Fri Dec 25 2015 05:17 pm

    Re: Episode 14: Christmas Eve shenanigans
    By: Digital Man to TechDorks on Thu Dec 24 2015 04:22:43

    Spoler ALERT!!!

    Eh? There's no spolers in it.

    Typo, spoilers...but yeah, thank goodness! I was get worried out here. thought I was going to see my whole future flash in front of me. :)

    Sincerely,
    Jon Justvig

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