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Re:Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982) by Asooka on Thursday March 28, 2019 @08:36AM (#19511541)
Oh please, actual Real Programmers, just picked up the phone and whistled at 9.6kb/s.
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Re:Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982) by rurban on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:44AM (#19519631)
Most old POTS phone switches still had the older pulse interface, so you dialed by hitting the hangup button really fast. The new fancy frequency encoding from 300-3300Hz was faster but not proper hacking anymore, you needed extra HW for this. Doable, but generating pulses was much easier.
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