[PLUG-TALK] Modem fun

[Russell Senior]

You might remember our speaker from last May, Adrian Black. His youtube 
channel today had a program where he used an analog PBX from the late 
1990s to play with his old dialup modems:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7LYCERDnX4

Just for your weekend nostalgia fix.

Back pre-pandemic I played around with my modems to test them out before 
going to a ToorCamp (where an analog phone system is set up by the fun 
people at ShadyTel), and I very quickly discovered that analog modems no 
longer function over modern digital telephone systems, because of 
compression during digitization or something.

So, I guess if you really want to play, you need one of these old PBXs.

Hopefully, watching the show will allow me not to do it myself.


-- 
Russell Senior
russell at pdxlinux.org