From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com (Jason Stevens) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:31:36 +0800 Subject: [TUHS] Harasing whistlers (Was: UUCP mis-history?) In-Reply-To: References: <20170309150644.6735918C11B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: <777EBBB5-6B7A-43E8-82AF-8FFC26B78C72@superglobalmegacorp.com> It's not hard to whistle a handshake. I've been able to get a modem to connect. Of course actual data is out of the question. It's just loud sharp tones, then just match pitch, the other modem will change a few times and just match it. It was a silly trick whistling to modems, but these days nobody has one. And I can't say I miss dialup. On March 10, 2017 5:29:29 AM GMT+08:00, Dave Horsfall wrote: >On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote: > >> Interesting: I've heard this same story, but told about TIPs and the >> ARPANET. A computer at BBN was set up to regularly dial all the TIP >> modem lines, to check that they were working. One line was always >down, >> so they listened in, and heard some human say "it's just that pevert >> with the whistle again". >> >> I wonder which one was the original: anyone know for sure? > >Now that takes me back; urban myth, because the calling modem didn't >squeak until the called modem did. > >-- >Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will >suffer." -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: