Post a pic that makes you LOL

[boatgeek]

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Dispute the premise. My experience has always been that the skinny guys can pack far more away than the big ones. You always have to watch out for the wiry ones.

 

[kuririn]

 

[Cape Byron]

 

[Antares JS]

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I'm old enough to remember that, at least.

 

[Cape Byron]

 

[jqavins]

I think acoustic would be OK. No gasoline or natural gas powered guitars though.

But gas is just classical!

 

[Kyle Goodwin]

 

[Mugs914]

Oh come on! So obviously photoshopped!

If it was real, at least two of those guys would be looking over at the new gun guy with sad, dejected looks of jealousy on their faces.

Just sayin'...

 

[MALBAR 70]

 

[dr wogz]

I'm old enough to remember that, at least.

what about this?!

 

[Antares JS]

what about this?!

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Nope, I have never seen that.

 

[MALBAR 70]

 

[MALBAR 70]

 

[John Kemker]

what about this?!

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Didn't use a Digital VT520 with an acoustical modem. Used a Lear Siegler ADM3A with one, though. By the time the VT520 came out, most folks were using direct-connect 9600 bps modems or faster.

 

[jqavins]

A friend had an acoustic coupler modem, but his terminal was his TRS-80. I had a literal teletype in my bedroom, but only used it as the terminal for a computer that was sitting next to it.

 

[Art Upton]

Nope, I have never seen that.

We called them "Dumb Terminals", as they were not a computer but could talk to a Main Frame or other multi-user computer like DEC Mini-Computers. They even worked on Unix computers as serial terminals.

The one shown is a pretty modern one, looks in the late 80s.

 

[jqavins]

Of course, we just called them "terminals" until smarter ones became common. And equally dumb video terminals were called "glass teletypes".

 

[kuririn]

 

[jsdemar]

We called them "Dumb Terminals", as they were not a computer but could talk to a Main Frame or other multi-user computer like DEC Mini-Computers. They even worked on Unix computers as serial terminals.

The one shown is a pretty modern one, looks in the late 80s.

In college we had IBM paper teletypes on acoustic modems. The ones I used at GE in 1980 were VT102 terminals connected to a VAX 11/780. I wrote a VT100 emulator for the 8-bit Atari 800/400 and designed an RS232 interface for it to dial in from home. I ended up selling the hardware for $50 retail and put the terminal software in the public domain. I wrote it in "Forth", if anybody knows that language. It also had XMODEM/ZMODEM file transfer. I can't believe it's been 40+ years!

 

[kuririn]

My granny crocheted.
I can sooooooooo relate to this.

 

[Antares JS]

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The throne.

 

[Art Upton]

In college we had IBM paper teletypes on acoustic modems. The ones I used at GE in 1980 were VT102 terminals connected to a VAX 11/780. I wrote a VT100 emulator for the 8-bit Atari 800/400 and designed an RS232 interface for it to dial in from home. I ended up selling the hardware for $50 retail and put the terminal software in the public domain. I wrote it in "Forth", if anybody knows that language. It also had XMODEM/ZMODEM file transfer. I can't believe it's been 40+ years!

I know what Forth is, but I never learned to code in it

 

[cls]

I wrote it in "Forth", if anybody knows that language. It also had XMODEM/ZMODEM file transfer.

+2048 nerd points!!

 

[Tech 68]

 

[BlackBrant]

 

[BlackBrant]

 

[BlackBrant]

 

[BlackBrant]

 

[kuririn]

 

[mikeyd]

A friend had an acoustic coupler modem, but his terminal was his TRS-80. I had a literal teletype in my bedroom, but only used it as the terminal for a computer that was sitting next to it.
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Model 33 with paper punch, repaired many of these.