Telebit Trailblazer modems (was Re: Debugging techniques and core dumps)

From: blstuart_at_bellsouth.net <(blstuart_at_bellsouth.net)>
Date: Mon Feb 14 21:32:26 2005

In message <39590.64.139.41.130.1108431662.squirrel_at_64.139.41.130>, "Eric Smith
" writes:
>The Telebit modem engineers believed that it would be possible to get a
>working connection using a tin can and string (with some sort of
>transducers, perhaps piezo), but never actually did the experiment.

Now that brings back a memory. When I first visited Notre Dame
in preparation of doing some graduate study there, I ran into
a guy I had known in college. He was doing some work on protocols
funded by IBM. To demonstrate their robustness, he actually did
set up tin cans and string. As I recall, he used and ordinary
speaker and microphone.

Brian L. Stuart
Received on Mon Feb 14 2005 - 21:32:26 GMT