On Sep 01, 2014 12:10am, JOHN GUILLORY wrote to ED KOON:

JG> No 300 baud?  I forget who it was that gave me a Full height MFM.
JG> Either David Thomas or Mike.... Can't remember... My Uncle gave me my
JG> first 300 baud modem.  I later had issues with it and went to a 1200
JG> baud that had to load a .com file for its drivers to make it "hayes
JG> compatible".  It was fun in a way, because you could hex-edit the
JG> commands to make it have different command sets!  I wished I could find
JG> the source code to the .com file!  It'd be awesome to write a series of
JG> various .com files to emulate other modems...  Imagine, you load up
JG> hayes.com and type in ATI it responds as a Hayes 1200 baud modem.   load
JG> up USR.COM and it thinks it's a courier hst!  load up stupid.com and
JG> type ATI and it responds with some TCP/IP Modem ;-)  You could really
JG> have fun writing BBS software (or terminal software) that upon startup
JG> it does an ATI and identifies the modem, figures out what command set
JG> your using, then switches to the right init strings... If you really
JG> wanted to have fun, make a new file called NonHayes.com that you set the
JG> modem to auto-answer by issuing ATS255=1  and reset the modem to factory
JG> settings by using ATS0=255  ... Answer the modem with ATZ, and dial with

I think i got it in 1990 and put my board up on it soon afterward. That was
fun, i accidently deleted command.com once and had to reinstall everything.
But it was a good learning process.

I miss the monthly Sysop meetings the most.

Regards,





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