That was a brilliant move by the telecom company to sell a huge batch of useless extra phones to poor suckers Commodore.
They are useless because they're identical to the customer's own phone except for the fact they say Commodore.
1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone
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Re: 1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone
#1233 years later, Commodore releases a modern phone: The Commodore Callback Flip-Phone https://commodore.net/callback/
Re: 1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone
#13Around the same time, I purchased a Novation D-CAT which worked the same way as the one described (plugging in between the phone base and the handset). It was my first modem, and I primarily used it with my Lear Siegler ADM1A terminal (an upper case only terminal made entirely from discrete logic, and no internal CPU).
The late 70's and early 80's was an era of rapid evolution in modem technology. Within a year or two I had purchased a Hayes Smartmodem 1200, and had that connected to one of my CP/M computers.
I purchased several other modems over the years from US Robotics and Hayes. I think I purchased my last one in 1996, which was the year I got ISDN (2BRI).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novation_CAT
Re: 1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone
#1433 years later, Commodore releases a modern phone: The Commodore Callback Flip-Phone https://commodore.net/callback/
They announced it, they haven't released anything yet. There is not a single real photograph of an actual device on the site. There's a wait list where you can sign up for eventual pre-orders, with an offer that they'll ask you for slightly less money.
Also, it's not Commodore but someone playing "Weekend at Bernie's" with what's left of the brand. The real Commodore went through bankruptcy and liquidation in 1994.
Re: 1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone
#15Now, that’s a Commodore phone I can get behind.
Re: 1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone
#16Telco regulations were also why modems used an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler instead of being directly connected. As an aside, the em-dash density of this article is one of the highest I've ever seen.
There's only two in the whole article, what are you smoking?
Re: 1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone
#17Telco regulations were also why modems used an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler instead of being directly connected. As an aside, the em-dash density of this article is one of the highest I've ever seen.
There's only two in the whole article, what are you smoking?
What? A quick scan and I counted 10. There are two in the opening paragraph.
Re: 1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love the em dash–and I didn't even notice them in this article.
It's not just the em-dash—it's the style of writing. The short paragraphs. The Consistent Titled Sections. Classic LLMese at its finest.
LLMs being based on probabilities and these are based on averages, hence whatever the LLM produces must be an average of what its been trained on.
So doesn't the LLM just regurgitating the average writing style of the internet and isn't the author just an average writer and hence the em-dashes.
Re: 1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone
#19> Elsewhere in the world, phones were modular. Handsets connected to their bases via small RJ-9 jacks, allowing devices like the VICModem to intercept the line between the handset and the base. Easy. But not in Canada.
I would beg to differ. Maybe in some places in the world, but definitely not "everywhere else but in Canada". That's why the acoustic coupler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler) was invented: a device where you placed your phone's handset, so you could connect your computer to it without having to physically tamper with the phone company's sacred device.
Re: 1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love the em dash–and I didn't even notice them in this article.
It's not just the em-dash—it's the style of writing. The short paragraphs. The Consistent Titled Sections. Classic LLMese at its finest.
And the clanker doesn't even explain what changes for compatibility changes that Commodore and Bell agreed to and Bell didn't deliver...
Such a horrible piece of writing.