[rescue] Hackers

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 09:25:38PM +0000, Peter Corlett wrote:
> > War Games: War dialling with an acoustic coupler? Hello?
> 
> What's wrong with that? I'm fairly certain the modems I used in 1989
> to dial cash registers from a DG minicomputer were all equipped with
> acoustic couplers.

And how did you hang up the phone? I had to physically touch the phone
to terminate the call... (yes, a relay/moter contraption could have
worked, but they didn't show that... I don't think a modem could
generate the 2600 Hz tone needed to hang up the phone...)


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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