This was some seriously cutting edge stuff back in the day... I mean, from a design perspective, even the computer itself was a brilliantly modern piece of design back then, using design cues from international modern/minimalist architecture. The 80’s (pre-85) were a very technically forward decade, and back then, this stuff would have been the equivalent of the Falcon X landing itself today. We can all sit here and laugh at how ancient it seems, but we’ve been blessed with something called “seamless integration” between our devices. Back then, people thought that the future would consist of having a separate device for every task, that would require analog integration to work in tandem with other units. They literally couldn’t have even fathomed the leaps and bounds we’d make as a society within 30 years.
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@@AlexWMY left speaker volume at 0 means the audio has 2 channels, with just one you'd get same sound on both speakers. Looks like they messed up converting a VHS into digital.
International phone calls has always been expensive even in 1984, then again pay phones are a thing of the past due to everybody having mobile phones these days
Most kids nowadays would have never seen a rotary phone like that. I remember having a phone like that and 3 or 4 houses would be hooked up to the same line (party line). When the phone rang a certain way, like 2 short rings with one long one, we knew it was ours. Also, when you picked up the phone your neighbor might be on the phone so you would say sorry and wait 5 minutes or so and try again. I'm in my 30's and things have changed so much already.
Even back in the day I remember thinking that acoustic coupling a modem was a terrible idea. But 'phone companies were very precious about anyone daring to plug things into their beloved copper wires, and often didn't even provide a socket into which you could plug anything. The 'phone was usually wired into the wall connector, so please try not to trip over the wire.
The phone companies really held back the progression of the internet until DSL. They wanted to keep their monopoly but eventually the internet took over them.
Yes, it modulates the data to audio frequencies for transmission over a system designed decades prior for voice and demodulates at the other end. Hence MOdulator-DEModulator (modem). Today, we rely on technology that is really just a very fast version of the technology that predates the invention of the telephone - the telegraph.
S J Powell definitely harks back to a simpler time, when computers were functional machines, everything was new and exciting! Computer games came on a cassette tape and didn't cost a years pocket money to buy. car boot sales were full of cardboard boxes jam packed with spectrum games at 50p each. Brilliant. Definitely miss the 80s, what I am old enough to remember of them at least.
MrSuperheterodyne I've deleted 20+ messages. At last as real person and real reply. I agree. I'm now big into vinyl and all these things are making a comeback. Time to get the Mega Drive out of the attic(loft). Now in off the play with BigTrac and eat some Pacers and watch Danger Mouse (80s reference).
@@MrSuperheterodyneI remember spending most of my Birthday/Christmas money on ZX Spectrum games. Then when I got a Mega Drive, the price for one game was like 20-40x more. Although most of the games I bought on the Spectrum were either Budget(Codemasters) games or re-releases that were cheaper than original release.(Not that I knew that at the time)
Easy to laugh at what many see as old tech, but your stuff you prize so highly now will look just as bad in 35+ years. I think these videos are great. 👍
If the password had still any value, it would be an easy task for any hacker to reproduce it by checking the positions where the keys where pressed ;-)
Plenty of phones had a rotary dial back then. We had a rotary dial phone until 1988, when we moved house. My grandmother was still renting her rotary phone until around 1990.
Ham radio people did this in the 70's using teletype. Also we did this on the CB also dumped text an programs on tape remote with ctcss codes was slow but we did it 1st
Jez what a laugh. "None of us have enough change to make the call" . . . . and "stuff that very firmly in there" . . . . This will have me giggling for days
Tandy sold over 6 million of these! (popular with journalists on the go): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100 instant on rom software, 20 hour battery life, standby 30 days.
@@topologyrob Yes, kind of, that's right. Though with the term "modem" people usually associate an external box or computer card in their minds that connects directly to the phone line. The original Smart Modem or later class of Hayes modems do contain a little computer that can do compression/decompression and execute commands. The same problem also exists in the amateur radio community, I think. There, a "modem" historically refers to a dump modulator/demodulator, whereas a TNC (terminal node controller) refers to a smart device that does perform essentially the same job, along with some extras. However, a TNC technically also contains a modem part, too..
Because that was the most common type of phone. Many telephone exchanges (in the UK at least) were still pulse dial. You could dial a number without even using the dial. Just rapidly tap the hook. To dial a 1, tap twice, to dial 2, tap three times etc. Lots of childish fun and games just randomly banging away on the hook. I got through to Hiroshima once.
This was some seriously cutting edge stuff back in the day... I mean, from a design perspective, even the computer itself was a brilliantly modern piece of design back then, using design cues from international modern/minimalist architecture. The 80’s (pre-85) were a very technically forward decade, and back then, this stuff would have been the equivalent of the Falcon X landing itself today. We can all sit here and laugh at how ancient it seems, but we’ve been blessed with something called “seamless integration” between our devices. Back then, people thought that the future would consist of having a separate device for every task, that would require analog integration to work in tandem with other units. They literally couldn’t have even fathomed the leaps and bounds we’d make as a society within 30 years.
"I'm not going to tell you what it is".... But I'll let the camera film me typing it in 😂
3465789769
@@KPbICMAH Go on, use it and ruin his day!
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Yes,but you must remember most where watching this back then on tiny ,low res screens making it next to impossible to deduce code.
I fricken ROLLED when I saw that lmao
I really love these old Database re-runs. I hope to see more! I'm officially addicted.
30 years old tech and it feels like watching The Flintstones
BAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHA
No, it doesn't
40 you mean. The tech they were using was developed in the 70s.
More than 30 years of technology progress.
Couldn't mix mono sound into two channels.
@@AlexWMY left speaker volume at 0 means the audio has 2 channels, with just one you'd get same sound on both speakers. Looks like they messed up converting a VHS into digital.
stuff that really firmly
ivan bašić 😂😂😂😂😂😂
"...using one of these" ..................and coffee came out my nose.
Thank you, Thames TV.
Nobody has enough change to make the call 😂😂😂 oh my science
Even in 1984 they didn't have change for payphones... amen brother...
International phone calls has always been expensive even in 1984, then again pay phones are a thing of the past due to everybody having mobile phones these days
@@AdamTheMan1993 Especially expensive from a train, I’d have thought.
It’s like watching pre-history! Amazing!
These old British technology videos hit hard
Yes, 1984: the year that the ‘Back to the Future’ JVC GR-C1U camcorder came on the market.
Stephen Clementson - Great Scott!
Computer in London says No
That was really cool for the time! If you're a rich businessman from the 80s get one!
Are you sure that "modem" isn't actually a defibrillator?
it's the mid to early 80s and you expect a slim and sleek design for something that is essentially bleeding edge tech at the time?
🤣
@@ChristopherGray00 Joke
It actually is an acoustic coupler. The modem bit probably built in.
using a rotery phone to email. I never heard of email until 1994.
Most kids nowadays would have never seen a rotary phone like that. I remember having a phone like that and 3 or 4 houses would be hooked up to the same line (party line). When the phone rang a certain way, like 2 short rings with one long one, we knew it was ours. Also, when you picked up the phone your neighbor might be on the phone so you would say sorry and wait 5 minutes or so and try again. I'm in my 30's and things have changed so much already.
which country was this?
@@mss4822 Party Lines were in the U.K.
I remember one of my friends parents having a rotary phone into the 00's.
We have WiFi now :) I have to laugh at the pulse dial phone. Now that's a relic!
It surely is our generation of 'during the war'.
"Grampa, mommy tells me there was a time before the internet, is that true?"
Do not laugh at the old, as it is the reason we have the new.
Did he get any messages about cheap Rolexes or Viagra?
🤣🤣🤣
Kabukicho would have given you all three and more. 😂
The message he sent was "Please order some bloody broadband!" 😂
i don't think this is going to catch on.
😆
i worked at thames tv teddington around this time
Cunning that he didn't show us his password. Couldn't get my mobile to fit in the too sided coupling any more though :)
It was an account number with no password. It is also easy to tell out what he entered by looking at the keyboard layout and his keypresses.
"if only I could think of something to say"
Just two days before my fourteenth birthday. I didn't start using emails or have an email account until I was 39!
LOL... you can track the position of the 10 numbers he typed.
Gotta hack his Prestel account, pass me the powerglove, it´s H A C K I N G T I M E
Oh wait, where did Prestel go?
😂
This is awsome !
Even back in the day I remember thinking that acoustic coupling a modem was a terrible idea. But 'phone companies were very precious about anyone daring to plug things into their beloved copper wires, and often didn't even provide a socket into which you could plug anything. The 'phone was usually wired into the wall connector, so please try not to trip over the wire.
The phone companies really held back the progression of the internet until DSL. They wanted to keep their monopoly but eventually the internet took over them.
0:10
It's like a tablet but with the mechanical keyboard taking up over half of the interface and being larger than the LCD screen itself.
Well if I trip and fall over into 1980's Japan, at least I now know how to send a email back to England asking for help.
😂😂😂
Things haven’t exactly got much faster for UK Internet!
Gotta love that Moh-dem
I pressed like before the video started
He's got a real attitude it's great lol TV without PC crap
Jeez, it works through SOUND
Yes it does. And with enough practice and a baud rate low enough it is possible to talk to a machine directly by whistling into a modem.
I'm going to hazard a guess you're quite young... 56K modems were commonplace 10-15 years ago.
Yes, it modulates the data to audio frequencies for transmission over a system designed decades prior for voice and demodulates at the other end. Hence MOdulator-DEModulator (modem). Today, we rely on technology that is really just a very fast version of the technology that predates the invention of the telephone - the telegraph.
Is it only me that wants one of these now in 2017?!
S J Powell definitely harks back to a simpler time, when computers were functional machines, everything was new and exciting! Computer games came on a cassette tape and didn't cost a years pocket money to buy. car boot sales were full of cardboard boxes jam packed with spectrum games at 50p each. Brilliant. Definitely miss the 80s, what I am old enough to remember of them at least.
MrSuperheterodyne I've deleted 20+ messages. At last as real person and real reply. I agree. I'm now big into vinyl and all these things are making a comeback. Time to get the Mega Drive out of the attic(loft). Now in off the play with BigTrac and eat some Pacers and watch Danger Mouse (80s reference).
You can get a serial to USB adapter and an old modem. There you go.
@@MrSuperheterodyneI remember spending most of my Birthday/Christmas money on ZX Spectrum games. Then when I got a Mega Drive, the price for one game was like 20-40x more. Although most of the games I bought on the Spectrum were either Budget(Codemasters) games or re-releases that were cheaper than original release.(Not that I knew that at the time)
Geez just ring them up
Personally can never see this catching on
Easy to laugh at what many see as old tech, but your stuff you prize so highly now will look just as bad in 35+ years. I think these videos are great. 👍
True...👍
I won’t tell you my account bc you will steal it and then he tells us his account number lmao 1980s seems like such simple times
If this catches on, I can see some people trying to use it for criminal gain. May need some sort of security system.
I still use this
"And then I'll enter my personal ID..." *types in 000*
Better hope nobody tries to hack his account 30 years later
That would be a really expensive email, expecting your huge phone bill😂😂
Wow...seems like yesterday to me.
3 years later, does it feel like you just finished typing that comment? 😆
what kind of computer is that? I wanna get one and use it as a dumb terminal and do my programming in Vim because I hate fun :D
okay, image searched a screen grab, it's a Tandy TRS-80 model 100
Awesome!
magical
Isn't he the teacher in Mind Your Language.
He may be, in which case he'd ask you to trade the period for a question mark! ;-)
adrian ollivierre Nope, no Mr Brown here
No, he was on Magpie though
Nice keyboard! (and 2:03 cracked me up)
"im not going to tell you what it is"...goes on to show 3465789758
1:22 Maybe sitting on floor in honorable Japanese hotel room? Damn! Style of the time I see. 😂
If the password had still any value, it would be an easy task for any hacker to reproduce it by checking the positions where the keys where pressed ;-)
its 3465789769
someone dial up Prestel and try it out!
Now i want a badass laptop like that
Omg how he forcefully put the phones receiver on that modem lol.
Don't think most phones had a rotary dial. The first phone with buttons was released in the 60s!
Plenty of phones had a rotary dial back then. We had a rotary dial phone until 1988, when we moved house. My grandmother was still renting her rotary phone until around 1990.
wow
Is there a Part 1? Or is this the second video after the Japanese home computers one?
wow! i wish i had fancy struff like that!
😂😂 👍
Rumour has it he´s still dialing.
I will only use windows on the day it runs under unix.
Ham radio people did this in the 70's using teletype. Also we did this on the CB also dumped text an programs on tape remote with ctcss codes was slow but we did it 1st
Jez what a laugh. "None of us have enough change to make the call" . . . . and "stuff that very firmly in there" . . . . This will have me giggling for days
it looks likes 1984 is better back then rather than now 2024
You know what ... still he had to pay a large phone bill to the counter.
Tandy sold over 6 million of these! (popular with journalists on the go):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100
instant on rom software, 20 hour battery life, standby 30 days.
1:57 This is hilarious ....lol
It's like hes showing off his new rpi project.
No ads interruption?
My kid don't know how to dial phone number with a rotary telephone
ilk defa böyle bir cihaz gördüm.
next time someone complains they cant' get a good wifi signal on their mobile device, show them this clip.
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Not really a modem, though. That was an acoustic coupler. :)
An acoustic coupler is a type of modem isn't it?
@@topologyrob Yes, kind of, that's right. Though with the term "modem" people usually associate an external box or computer card in their minds that connects directly to the phone line. The original Smart Modem or later class of Hayes modems do contain a little computer that can do compression/decompression and execute commands.
The same problem also exists in the amateur radio community, I think. There, a "modem" historically refers to a dump modulator/demodulator, whereas a TNC (terminal node controller) refers to a smart device that does perform essentially the same job, along with some extras. However, a TNC technically also contains a modem part, too..
Why did he use a rotary phone?
Because that was the most common type of phone. Many telephone exchanges (in the UK at least) were still pulse dial. You could dial a number without even using the dial. Just rapidly tap the hook. To dial a 1, tap twice, to dial 2, tap three times etc. Lots of childish fun and games just randomly banging away on the hook. I got through to Hiroshima once.
Wait... how the heck does it work only thru the speaker ?
Sorry I just left my rock , under which I've lived all my life
It's a modem - modulator/demodulator. Turns the digital data into various audible tones that are converted back at the other end.
itll never catch on
What's a shed jule?
Where are Pat and Julian?
Definitely not PCI compliant
I'm pretty sure my acoustic coupler is causing the problems I get watching Netflix.
Nothing new here. The international man of mystery James Bond was using this tech in the 70's. 😎🍷
i can't believe the people in the 80s didn't just say fuck it and stick with analogue things.
mOdEm
I haven't seen those type of telephones 😭
The biggest problem today, in Britain at least, would be to find a train that's running 😀
Didn't this guy die in 2007? I don't remember his name
Tony Bastable
i would never have guessed this was 1984!
more like 94
The modem .... the modem ... plug the modem fast whn you hear a connection ! Wat the hell
You can tell what the password is just watch what keys be hits .. Lol, old school
Wow it must of used like morse code but in sounds
Cool an early laptop
Good old Prestal ! .
Glpi lpi - Prestel.
The way he said cursor 😂
Step 1: Plug in the Flux Capacitor.
Prestel 🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣
god this is like, literally 1984 smh
This is crazy
Moh-dem, koor-sore lol
0:44 idk why I'm cracking-up at the moment he introduces the modem 😂😂😹 can't stop laughing help meeeee
How many people could actually afford that stuff back then?
The 80s was a time of global economic boom so if you had a decent paid job back then pretty much anybody can afford it
The aliens are laughing at us