Love to give Texas credit, but I suspect it was because Xfinity “improved “
their box. Oh well. The only reason I added the phone service was it saved
me $40 over the entire bill to have three services (internet, cable and phone)
and only cost $30 to add phone giving me a net savings of $10. I seldom use
the phone except to answer when my wife calls from upstairs and I left my cell
phone upstairs. The old rotary dial phone has a nice loud mechanical ringer.
Sorry about the off-topic post. There have been some great discussions going
on lately. I don’t mean to distract from them. I like them all.
However, I doubt I will ever use the modem on the M100. The NEC didn’t even
bother with the modem. Back in the day, I use to use a big old acoustical
coupler modem with the NEC 8201 . My rotary dial phone would fit one of those
quite nicely had I retained the modem.
A wild idea for a kluge might be to come up with some electronics that would
plug into the headset jack of your cell phone and also your M100. Perhaps
you could establish comm by dialing using the cell then let the M100 talk to
whatever computer it was you dialed. I’m thinking the electronics between the
M100 and the cell phone would simply be signal leveling but more research would
be needed.
I’ll be quiet now. 😊
Lloyd
From: M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> On Behalf Of Jeff Gonzales
Sent: Friday, October 7, 2022 4:10 PM
To: m...@bitchin100.com
Subject: Re: [M100] Modems and the modern world
Texas does it better. :)
On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 2:54 PM <lloydel...@comcast.net
<mailto:lloydel...@comcast.net> > wrote:
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
<mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> > On Behalf Of Peter Vollan
Sent: Friday, October 7, 2022 1:40 PM
To: m...@bitchin100.com <mailto: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
