On Sep 01, 2014 12:10am, JOHN GUILLORY wrote to ED KOON:   
      
   JG> No 300 baud?  I forget who it was that gave me a Full height MFM.   
   JG> Either David Thomas or Mike.... Can't remember... My Uncle gave me my   
   JG> first 300 baud modem.  I later had issues with it and went to a 1200   
   JG> baud that had to load a .com file for its drivers to make it "hayes   
   JG> compatible".  It was fun in a way, because you could hex-edit the   
   JG> commands to make it have different command sets!  I wished I could find   
   JG> the source code to the .com file!  It'd be awesome to write a series of   
   JG> various .com files to emulate other modems...  Imagine, you load up   
   JG> hayes.com and type in ATI it responds as a Hayes 1200 baud modem.   load   
   JG> up USR.COM and it thinks it's a courier hst!  load up stupid.com and   
   JG> type ATI and it responds with some TCP/IP Modem ;-)  You could really   
   JG> have fun writing BBS software (or terminal software) that upon startup   
   JG> it does an ATI and identifies the modem, figures out what command set   
   JG> your using, then switches to the right init strings... If you really   
   JG> wanted to have fun, make a new file called NonHayes.com that you set the   
   JG> modem to auto-answer by issuing ATS255=1  and reset the modem to factory   
   JG> settings by using ATS0=255  ... Answer the modem with ATZ, and dial with   
      
   I think i got it in 1990 and put my board up on it soon afterward. That was   
   fun, i accidently deleted command.com once and had to reinstall everything.   
   But it was a good learning process.   
      
   I miss the monthly Sysop meetings the most.   
      
   Regards,   
      
      
      
      
      
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