Although the phone companies support pulse dialing, not all internet modems do if you are doing voice over IP.
I have an old rotary dial telephone I acquired a while back from eBay. It worked fine when I lived in Texas but when we moved to Illinois, I discovered the new Xfinity box we got would no longer support rotary (pulse) dialing. If I recall, the Xfinity box I had in Texas did work just fine. Lloyd From: M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> On Behalf Of Peter Vollan Sent: Friday, October 7, 2022 1:40 PM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] Modems and the modern world Here in the USA, phone companies are required to continue to support pulse dialing. On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 at 08:05, Cedric Amand <ced...@cedric.net <mailto:ced...@cedric.net> > wrote: Hey I'm not alone :) I'm also a fan of telecom and I made the built in modem of my m102 (300 bauds as you said) work What I can suggest if you would like to experiment a lot with vintage modems ; is getting a home PABX (a phone exchange), or a small business PABX (even an isdn pabx works) You can find those for anywhere between 20 and 100 dollars/euros on ebay because nobody needs them anymore, like a 4 lines pabx. This allows you to have your own PSTN network for your experiments (if you're into that kind of thing that is) I made "calls" between my Model 102 and a USR56K modem with no issue. You also need a cable. That cable is so vintage that you actually have to pickup the phone to make it dial. Beware that the M100 and M102 do not support DTMF dialing, only pulse, and nowadays it's probably impossible to make a call with pulse. You can however dial the number yourself (with the above cable) - or, again, use a PABX that supports both DTMF and PULSE. >From my own experience, at least over here in europe, it's impossible to make >proper modem calls on land line like they worked back in the day, for gow >knows what reason the quality of the line makes it impossible to negociate >anything above 14,4k. I guess they filter more or the signal is so digital >that it doesn't behave in the proper way an analog modem expects. Le 2022-10-06 20:27, Will Senn <will.s...@gmail.com <mailto:will.s...@gmail.com> > a écrit : As you may have noticed, I'm putting my m100 through its paces and enjoying the process of treading down memory lane. Last night I finished coding up my banner program using the M100 font. Now I just need a printer (or retroprinter emulator) to try it out on... in the meantime, I'm catching up on remote communications. If I understand correctly, the m100 has a built in 300 baud modem. Am I understanding this correctly? If so, in this oh so modern era, how does one go about exercising it? I don't currently have a land line, so does it work with an iphone? (never saw that coming... can I connect 300 baud over iphone, hilarious, but there you have it). Are there BBSes still in operation? Later, Will
