The Barn by Ralph Hagen for November 14, 2018

What’s so smart about it?

At least it’s not an acoustic modem (where you had to place the handset on the modem to make the connection).

“you’ve got mail”

Technology has gotten more advanced over the years.

steam power! and idea whose time has come

Check out Stan’s connector wire to his phone.

Years ago I owned an answering and paging service. As text capable phones were coming we figured how to access ports at the cell carriers to send messages direct to phones. At the time Canada had two providers, the phone companies and Cantel. The Telco connect was fine, about 4800 as I remember. But Cantel required we ratchet down to 300 baud to get a connection. As the old expression said makes you want to get out and push

Quote of the Day 64K is enough memory Bill Gates

It’s also a rotary smartphone.