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Anyone know if Autopia is still alive? Tried to log on, but it seems dead.
 
It's still there. It's painfully slow.
 
cb804 said:
It's still there. It's painfully slow.
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Yep. It's still there. Once you click on "forum" or "new posts", let it sit for a couple minutes and something will appear eventually.
 
Flash Gordon said:
Anyone remember dial up?
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Hayes 2400 bps SmartModem to 9600bps Qualcomm was really cookin’…until US Robotics hit with 14.4 and then 28.8. Had ISDN line for a while too

Text-based Internet…Gopher, Lynx, Usenet & Listservs…Elm & Pine e-mail. For the time, was cutting edge.


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BudgetPlan1 said:
Hayes 2400 bps SmartModem to 9600bps Qualcomm was really cookin’…until US Robotics hit with 14.4 and then 28.8. Had ISDN line for a while too

Text-based Internet…Gopher, Lynx, Usenet & Listservs…Elm & Pine e-mail. For the time, was cutting edge.


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n00b. A million years ago I used to transmit a file from my firm to another firm via 300 baud MDS (Mohawk Data Science) accoustic coupler modem with a 7 track tape as input on my end. There was no takeup reel, we just had a hole in the tabletop the unit was on so the tape could drop through into a plastic wastebasket we used as the "bit bucket" and then manually rewind at the end. I'd call up the operator at the other end - on that phone - and we'd both acknowledge "ready" then put the handset into the coupler. I'd just sit there while it slowwwwwwly went click-click, click-click, until the end. About at least 1/3 of the time it failed and we'd just say, OK, try again tomorrow, have a good night!

Much later, on a different computer system and me as a programmer instead of an operator, we'd transmit ACH (Automated Clearing House) files to the FRB (Federal Reserve Board); these are the direct deposit and direct debits for things like payroll deposits, insurance payments, etc. that all of us take for granted these days. Sometimes things went boom and I would run upstairs to the computer room, get the 9-track tape and then literally run the few blocks from my office to the FRB to manually deliver the tape to their "presentment window" before the deadline. If you missed the deadline then those deposits and payments weren't made - very, very not good. These were the early, wild and wooly days of electronic payments. To this day if you gave me a NACHA file I could read its contents and break down each and every 94 byte record from memory of the layout of all of the various record types. Somewhat surprisingly this isn't a skill that's ever proven useful at bars or cocktail parties to impress women (or, really, anyone). :)
 
Karl_in_Chicago said:
n00b. A million years ago I used to transmit a file from my firm to another firm via 300 baud MDS (Mohawk Data Science) accoustic coupler modem with a 7 track tape as input on my end. There was no takeup reel, we just had a hole in the tabletop the unit was on so the tape could drop through into a plastic wastebasket we used as the "bit bucket" and then manually rewind at the end. I'd call up the operator at the other end - on that phone - and we'd both acknowledge "ready" then put the handset into the coupler. I'd just sit there while it slowwwwwwly went click-click, click-click, until the end. About at least 1/3 of the time it failed and we'd just say, OK, try again tomorrow, have a good night!

Much later, on a different computer system and me as a programmer instead of an operator, we'd transmit ACH (Automated Clearing House) files to the FRB (Federal Reserve Board); these are the direct deposit and direct debits for things like payroll deposits, insurance payments, etc. that all of us take for granted these days. Sometimes things went boom and I would run upstairs to the computer room, get the 9-track tape and then literally run the few blocks from my office to the FRB to manually deliver the tape to their "presentment window" before the deadline. If you missed the deadline then those deposits and payments weren't made - very, very not good. These were the early, wild and wooly days of electronic payments. To this day if you gave me a NACHA file I could read its contents and break down each and every 94 byte record from memory of the layout of all of the various record types. Somewhat surprisingly this isn't a skill that's ever proven useful at bars or cocktail parties to impress women (or, really, anyone). :)
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I have spent may hours creating programs to extract specific single payment records from these files.
 
mc2hill said:
I have spent may hours creating programs to extract specific single payment records from these files.
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I can do that with two off-the-shelf utilities - the never patented Mark 1 IEBEYEBALL and IDCAMS, LOL. Browse the file to find the "22" (or "32", I guess for those that still do savings accounts) record in question and then input to an IDCAMS to REPRO the contents with a SKIP for the number of records to ignore before the desired one and a COUNT of 1. I *could* even do that with line mode TSO if for some reason ISPF wasn't available though I'd really, really prefer NOT to have to, obviously. These days you use line mode TSO and people freak out like it's some kind of ancient magic. Hey, kid, lighten up - I remember when all we had was punch cards and printers! :LOL:
 
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