The perfect Telecom conversation piece [telecom]

Here's a perfect conversation piece for those awkward social situations when someone asks what you did for a living in the dark ages before computers:

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If you wind up buying it, feel free to invite me over to hook it up. ;-)

Of course, if you _do_ want to hook something up to a computer for demonstrations, something more "modern" may be in order, so here's some info on other equipment that is available for pickup in New Jersey. (This is from the "Greenkeys" mailing list).

The seller's email is snipped-for-privacy@remove-this.verizon.net

There are some pictures here:

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$1200.00 !!!!! ?????

You gotta be $#!+ting me !! ;-(

We used those in the USCG, ca. early 1970s and they were considered old back then !!

That's an old Baudot model with a 103 modem.

In the mid 1980s, the going street price for those was the labor necessary to haul it away.

***** Moderator's Note *****

Everything old is new: having come of age in the 60's and having been a geek before the word was in use, I have a lot of Ham Radio equipment. Those who came of age in the 70's and 80's are now trying to recapture _their_ youth.

Bill Horne Moderator

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