Jump to content
Due to a large amount of spamers, accounts will now have to be approved by the Admins so please be patient. ×
IGNORED

Checkout this cool old mobile phone


Recommended Posts

That's a dial up modem.

Had similar back when internet started.

 

Ahhh, righto, is that what is is? Yeah I thought ‘mobile phone’ might be a bit of a stretch, as it’s connected to a pay phone!

 

Pretty cool pic though, loads going on

 

 

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Aussie Arcade

Link to comment
Share on other sites

That's a dial up modem.

Had similar back when internet started.

 

This is an acoustic coupler, those things are pre-internet ! Hackers would use them getting into corps and in the earliest days, if you had a University student or staff logon you could access USENET and ARPANET which were networks established at Universities around the world and linked for mostly research purposes.... but discussion groups on all topics grew out of them, and you'd use text-only dumb terminals which were cheaper than PC's back then! The internet was born from these networks. I've never seen an acoustic coupler with a built-in keyboard and LCD screen though, that is very cool!

 

i remember using a 300bps acoustic coupler on an old fashioned telephone for using BBS services. used to work at the ANU in Computer services 1985-1989 and they would let you borrow their gear if you worked there.

 

The text would come up on the screen just a little bit faster than most people can type, and no graphics at all, till Browsers with graphics and the WWW was born in the early 90's.

 

How far it's come is amazing! Makes me feel old though..

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

How far it's come is amazing! Makes me feel old though..

 

The size of storage is the change that blows me away. Micro SD cards smaller than my thumbnail that hold gigabytes and gigabytes of data available at Target for a few dollars...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This is an acoustic coupler, those things are pre-internet ! Hackers would use them getting into corps and in the earliest days, if you had a University student or staff logon you could access USENET and ARPANET which were networks established at Universities around the world and linked for mostly research purposes.... but discussion groups on all topics grew out of them, and you'd use text-only dumb terminals which were cheaper than PC's back then! The internet was born from these networks. I've never seen an acoustic coupler with a built-in keyboard and LCD screen though, that is very cool!

 

i remember using a 300bps acoustic coupler on an old fashioned telephone for using BBS services. used to work at the ANU in Computer services 1985-1989 and they would let you borrow their gear if you worked there.

 

The text would come up on the screen just a little bit faster than most people can type, and no graphics at all, till Browsers with graphics and the WWW was born in the early 90's.

 

How far it's come is amazing! Makes me feel old though..

 

Yes i had the couplers and yes it wasn't too hard to make free os calls and some interesting sites.

 

And yes some great bbs sites and do you remember viatel run by Telecom in those days i think. Needed a 1200/75 min modem. I had one of the first 1200/1200 full duplex modems.....fast as lol

 

Then came the internet where you could start downloading a live video or a photo and go to school and when you got back home it was still downloading lol

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Then came the internet where you could start downloading a live video or a photo and go to school and when you got back home it was still downloading lol

 

lol yer and it would have been a 10KB image lol

Allot of internet bills were Either charged By the megabyte, or by the Hour, then a 30cent phone call to connect up lol. I remember Our telstra internet Plan was 30mb per month, that was a big plan ahaha.

You look at any website with a few pictures, takes an hour to load up, have it drop out 20 times and had to reconnect over and over. I remember how many times my old man would crack the shits because it cost like $20 to look at one website lol.

to make matters worse some person would ring your home phone and you would be booted off, and it always happened 2 seconds before the picture finished downloading lol.

I can still after 20 years hear that dial up tone in my head lol ahaha,

the joys of the internet in those days lol

Edited by jason1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

BBS services.

 

How far it's come is amazing! Makes me feel old though..

 

You made me feel old when you mentioned BBS and I knew what you were talking about. :)

 

The size of storage is the change that blows me away. Micro SD cards smaller than my thumbnail that hold gigabytes and gigabytes of data available at Target for a few dollars...

 

I remember a conversation I had with 2 mates that went along these lines:

 

me: Guys they're bringing out a new hard drive soon that's 1,000 megabytes and they're calling it a Gigabyte...

 

Them: a giga what? :lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol

 

me: a Gigabyte

 

Them: :lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol

 

But they didn't laugh when I told them about Terabyte drives.

 

Then came the internet where you could start downloading a live video or a photo and go to school and when you got back home it was still downloading lol

 

Ah yes... the early days of porn on the internet where you'd watch the picture load line by line from top to bottom. Nice hair... nice eyes... ooh what's wrong with her no.... oh it's an ok nose... nice lips....... looks like we have C...D... Double D's whoohoo!.....ooooh is that a nipple... hang on she's got too many abs.... oh no it's a shemale!! Boooooo :lol

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I remember a conversation I had with 2 mates that went along these lines:

 

me: Guys they're bringing out a new hard drive soon that's 1,000 megabytes and they're calling it a Gigabyte...

 

Them: a giga what? :lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol

 

me: a Gigabyte

 

Them: :lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol

 

But they didn't laugh when I told them about Terabyte drives.

And Back to the Future pronounced it Jiggawatts because it wasn't a common term yet,

 

- - - Updated - - -

 

Then came the internet where you could start downloading a live video or a photo and go to school and when you got back home it was still downloading lol

B1k7PGiCQAA7F8y.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The size of storage is the change that blows me away. Micro SD cards smaller than my thumbnail that hold gigabytes and gigabytes of data available at Target for a few dollars...

 

Crazy eh. In the Mainframe room at the ANU back in the mid 80's, the Fujitsu mainframe FACOM used mainly tape drives but there was a single hard disc drive which was hugely expensive to purchase, around $30k. These disk drives held all of about 10 megabytes, and they were the size of a washing machine :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

i remember using a 300bps acoustic coupler on an old fashioned telephone for using BBS services.

 

I didn't have an acoustic coupler but my first modem was 300 baud and you had to call the number using the rotary dial of the telephone to get on to a BBS and being told to stop hogging the phone line.

 

How far it's come is amazing! Makes me feel old though..

True.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

.... and being told to stop hogging the phone line.

 

Haha... yeah, that was anyways a problem with housemates.

 

One house i shared with two other geeks we were always tripping over lan cables. Great fun weekend Doom and Quake marathons though :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...