Telebit Trailblazer modems (was Re: Debugging techniques and core dumps)

[blstuart at bellsouth.net]

In message <39590.64.139.41.130.1108431662.squirrel at 64.139.41.130>, "Eric Smith
" writes:
>The Telebit modem engineers believed that it would be possible to get a
>working connection using a tin can and string (with some sort of
>transducers, perhaps piezo), but never actually did the experiment.

Now that brings back a memory.  When I first visited Notre Dame
in preparation of doing some graduate study there, I ran into
a guy I had known in college.  He was doing some work on protocols
funded by IBM.  To demonstrate their robustness, he actually did
set up tin cans and string.  As I recall, he used and ordinary
speaker and microphone.

Brian L. Stuart