Acoustic Coupler Modems

Acoustic Coupler Modems

The Radio Shack PT-210 was a portable terminal. It connected to a minicomputer or mainframe via an acoustic coupler modem. Rather than a video output, the terminal printed out on a roll of thermal paper. This device enabled remote access to “big-iron” enterprise systems.

Tweaking the theme…

Tweaking the theme…

Tweaking the theme of this poor, neglected, website. Tweaking the theme I moved seashell-software.com from my Raspberry Pi 3 here in my home office over to Siteground. My friend J.D. turned me on to Siteground a couple of years ago. So, I moved NOLA History Guy there....

Krewe de Tech!

Krewe de Tech!

(cross-posted to NOLA Linux) Last night's talk at the Krewe de Tech meeting Technical Talks Thanks to the Krewe de Tech computer club for having me over last night. It was fun to get out and talk tech at a more consumer level. As much as I enjoy the Enterprise Storage...

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