cbmeeks Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Call me crazy, but I'd love to track down and purchase a TI-99 Modem. http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/hardware/modem.html I've always loved acoustic coupler modems and what better system to use one than on the TI? Of course, I haven't had a land-line in about 12 years but why should that stop me? Are those things incredibly rare? Anyone willing to part with one for less money than a used Ford Pinto? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 They turn up sometimes. I have acquired two TI couplers with big collections. They don't seem to add a premium! I used an (Apple) Novation CAT acoustic coupler with my Geneve for a while. (Hello CAT.. I found you in the garage yesterday while looking for Geneve stuff.) They can even talk to each other through the air, a trick I should bring out again for public demonstration. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 I just saw one of these on ebay last week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmeeks Posted February 5, 2019 Author Share Posted February 5, 2019 They turn up sometimes. I have acquired two TI couplers with big collections. They don't seem to add a premium! I used an (Apple) Novation CAT acoustic coupler with my Geneve for a while. (Hello CAT.. I found you in the garage yesterday while looking for Geneve stuff.) They can even talk to each other through the air, a trick I should bring out again for public demonstration. That would be a neat trick. I assume you put them in reversed positions pointed at each other? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 That would be a neat trick. I assume you put them in reversed positions pointed at each other? No, they just answer across the room. They are susceptible to noise though. For my next trick. My brother spliced two RS232 cables together (minus some signals) so that 2 4As could share one modem. It works and you both read the incoming text, until you both try to type at once. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+9640News Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 You can also record the audio with the incoming link of the modems and play that back into the speaker of the modem. Did that back in the 80's to capture a friends password to his university computer account. Beery 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 You can also record the audio with the incoming link of the modems and play that back into the speaker of the modem. Did that back in the 80's to capture a friends password to his university computer account. Beery Track 12 of Peace and Love, Inc. by Information Society does this. It is a recording of a 300 baud signal carrying the text of a short story. You play it back into a modem to read the story. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Lee Stewart sent me one practically brand new a few months ago to test with my novelty handset pictured below. It fits fine in the cups of the modem. I tried it with my cell phone but it did not work well at all. I was able to occasionally connect to The Keep BBS, but it would hang after a few seconds. I think cell phone connections are too flaky to work reliably for data transmission. Fun little experiment though 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Lee Stewart sent me one practically brand new a few months ago to test with my novelty handset pictured below. It fits fine in the cups of the modem. I tried it with my cell phone but it did not work well at all. I was able to occasionally connect to The Keep BBS, but it would hang after a few seconds. I think cell phone connections are too flaky to work reliably for data transmission. Fun little experiment though Novelty handset.jpg yeah no.. cell calls don't carry the required frequencies. and compression mangles it..so no easier to use your cell as a bluetooth modem and do it all over tcp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 yeah no.. cell calls don't carry the required frequencies. and compression mangles it..so no easier to use your cell as a bluetooth modem and do it all over tcp How do you set this up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 How do you set this up? bluetooth serial device.. and an app i assume, or posssibly a rooted phone and set up the serial device as a console terminal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Track 12 of Peace and Love, Inc. by Information Society does this. It is a recording of a 300 baud signal carrying the text of a short story. You play it back into a modem to read the story. Yep, I have that CD. . .but I never took the time to feed the data into a modem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Yep, I have that CD. . .but I never took the time to feed the data into a modem. Is this the CD you were listening to in the post... #5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Call me crazy, but I'd love to track down and purchase a TI-99 Modem. http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/hardware/modem.html I've always loved acoustic coupler modems and what better system to use one than on the TI? Of course, I haven't had a land-line in about 12 years but why should that stop me? Are those things incredibly rare? Anyone willing to part with one for less money than a used Ford Pinto? One just popped up on ebay in a lot. Maybe you can contact the seller to see if he/she would consider selling it by itself. HERE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Is this the CD you were listening to in the post... #5 It sure was--and the whole CD had the side effect of identifying Information Society as interesting music to Turtles. . . 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Sounds rather inadvertent...Ha! Most music is interesting at one time or another... there was even a time I too appreciated Information Society. Today... I'd rather see/hear the Tx signal Rx'd. I have an original TI modem... however this thread got me to thinking... maybe I could use this for a semi customized transmission mode. If I live long enough... I didn't realize Turtles was yours... I'm sure you're proud! P.S. that cute little turtle hat inspired me to hang the wreath on my L.E.D. matrix! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 It sure was--and the whole CD had the side effect of identifying Information Society as interesting music to Turtles. . . He is right, you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 I think I played about five hours of Information Society music in the car on the way home from the Faire. . .he definitely got a good taste of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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