What ddooeess tthhiiss aalllll mean?

[mikeporter]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

I just did a search, turns out I'm 6 months older than LabVIEW.  Telnet is not something I did much of.

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Who said anything about Telnet -- we're talking dialup modems, AT commands and the like! 

First product I ever tested with LV (in 1986-1987) was a 2400 bps lease-line modem that came with a 4-channel multiplexer. That baby could give up to 4 people 600 bps of bandwidth each to call their very own.

Mike...

[Hooovahh]

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mikeporter wrote:

Who said anything about Telnet -- we're talking dialup modems, AT commands and the like! 

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Dial up what?  Like rotary dial phone?

(just kidding I had dial up when I was living at home)  (but I've never owned a land line)

[mikeporter]

Actually back then modems had a setting (ATP) that told it to simulate dial pulses for use on phone lines that were rotary only -- used to have to pay extra for DTMF. Believe it or not, you also had to pay extra for "long-distance" calls.

Mike...

[crossrulz]

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Hooovahh wrote:

A whole day of posting wasted, I could be at 1500 posts by now...okay probably not.

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I know.  I actually had to try to do work today.  On a Friday nevertheless.  What's up with that?

[JÞB]

At my parents house one day

ME: Go ahead and call your friend from the phone.

SON: UHM....

ME: Why do you think they say "Dial the phone?"

[GregFreeman]

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@mikeporter wrote:

Be honest! Who is too young to know what local echo is?

Mike...

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I am too young to know, but I still know 🙂

[GregFreeman]

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@JordanG wrote:

Unfortunately those characters were replaced with question marks when this database change occurred and was therefore acting as a wildcard.

Thanks,

Jordan

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.* in wrongg place in regex? 

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OH MAN! My regex guess was actually pretty close

[Dennis_Knutson]

My first job was with the company that invented the rotary dial system back in the 30s. Still made the switches while I was there working on all digital replacement.

[Hooovahh]

We've changed topics already so I'll tell my story, its a quick one.

So my grandparents still have a old school rotary dial phone.  They have no answering machine, and no other phone.  Just the off-white, yellow-ish one from the 70s or 60s.  They said it was when the phone company first let them buy a phone instead of renting one.  So they bought it to save money.  My grandpa claims they still get a discount on their bill for having a rotary dial phone.  Oh as a bonus it is still on a party line with one other family too.