Hahaha. How much were they back then? I vaguely remember 9600 but my memories of it all def. Started with 14.4
Damn back then that's no joke. Its fascinating to talk about this while using a cell phone that back then we never thought would even fit in our pocket, using something like 5G which was never even a thought to anyone.
Next time you invite me to the truck for a game I'm bringing a dictionary and a thesaurus so you can adjudicate which words you would like to use perennially. You're welcome. May this become ubiquitous with your speech.
Full duplex or half. If I remember correctly its whether you are sending bits both directions through the phone lines, or just one-way. barfo
That ain't nothing. When I started in electronics all electronics was vacuum tube. We used facsimile machines when I was in the Army. I remember the first TVs. They had round picture tubes that were about one foot in diameter and we walked up a hill and back uphill both ways just to watch the fights on the damn things. I wzs either 10 or 11 when the first color TV came out. I had to read my law books by either candle light, whale oil light or log fire light. Marzy was just a little brat.
My first computer was a Tektronix 4051. It used a persistent phosphor for it's graphics memory. It had, wow, 50K of memory and a Motorola 6800 microprocessor running at the dizzy speed of 1 MHz. The memory used little donut iron memory bits that had lines running thru and wrapped around it and was called core memory. Interestingly enough, the first space shuttle used core memory.
I knew a lot of Vietnamese in my area, TM500, but I left in 1983. Started there in 1969. The most prominent Vietnamese guy I knew was Loc Ho Tan. He was a lead technician in TM500 production and worked part time as a real estate agent in Beaverton. His father used to be the lead engineer for most of the power generation in S. Vietnam. Left South Vietnam after the fall and went to work as a high level executive for the World Bank where he reported to Bob McNamara, who was the former Secretary of Defense. He retired, moved to Beaverton and ran an Exxon gas station near the U.S. Bank that's on Farmington.
Maybe you could consider utilizing more accommodating phraseology so there is less loquacity and verbiage in your remarks as he would be better able to manducate on what you are gifting him and properly adjudicate how helpful it is
I drank ovaltine back when it was heavily promoted by Captain Midnight. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046585/
