• Iced Raktajino@startrek.website
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      6 days ago

      So many things wrong with that though:

      1. That’s a fax machine handshake not a data modem.
      2. That’s a LOT of data to be hissing over dial-up in a highly compressed GSM voice channel
      3. She didn’t dial anywhere near enough numbers
      4. The background noise would have had that handshake repeating over and over
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        6 days ago

        She didn’t dial anywhere near enough numbers

        Not necessarily! This particular phone had a feature that let you set shortcut numbers. It was an advanced form of the “long press a single number to dial a particular contact” feature that came before it. So you could go into your contacts and—via a series of absurdly complicated menus for such a simple device—you could set “7752” as the shortcut number to dial say, your bank of fax machines that somehow deliver the equivalent of 100Base-T Ethernet speeds.

        “Tell me how old you are without telling me how old you are” 😢

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          6 days ago

          Excellent catch!

          “Tell me how old you are without telling me how old you are” 😢

          Don’t feel bad. I was able to distinguish by ear between a T.38 fax handshake and a V.34+ modem handshake which definitely reveals my oldness 😆