Funny, I was trying to plug a "square" credit card reader into my wife's iPhone only to discover they don't come with audio jacks anymore.
On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 6:29 PM you got me <ven...@hotmail.com> wrote: > "plug into the headset jack of your cell phone" > > I'm amazed there are still phones that have an audio jack these days. > ------------------------------ > *From:* M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> on behalf of > lloydel...@comcast.net <lloydel...@comcast.net> > *Sent:* Friday, October 7, 2022 10:10 PM > *To:* m...@bitchin100.com <m...@bitchin100.com> > *Subject:* Re: [M100] Modems and the modern world > > > 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> 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> *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> 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> 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 > >
