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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] admin@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

HAHAHA! Yeah! I remember that awful noise!

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago

As a person who had to troubleshoot connections, I even have that first major repeat tone memorized. If it didn't come through, I knew something was up.

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago

Awful as it sounds, it was still data you could hear and decode using handwritten software. Protocols from those days were ones you could interact directly with - using software like telnet.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

and no RR

That is exactly what a robot would ~~say~~ scream.