On 2/16/2019 7:13 AM, nospam wrote:
123456789 wrote:
On 2/15/2019 8:30 PM, Roger Blake wrote:

Still have my old 300-baud acoustic coupler stored in a
closet somewhere.

Used to carry one of those things around the country with me.
I was amazed that virtually every place I stopped there was a
local AOL dial-up number available...

by the time aol was a thing, 300 baud modems were long obsolete.

When I said I carried one of those things around the country, I
meant the acoustic coupler.

it sounded like you meant 300 baud modems.

Moaa-dem doesn't SOUND like acooooostic coupler to me. But then I don't
use hearing aids (yet)... (Reread Roger Blake's line above that I
replied to and see if you don't agree.)

And they were very much in use during the early AOL days when many
hotel phones were hard wired with no RJ11 sockets available.

i used to bring a screwdriver and an rj11 jack. never a problem.

I just slipped one coupler cup on the phone's mouthpiece, the other on
the phone's earpiece, and I was good to go. 20 seconds max. No moving
hotel furniture, no attacking spiders, no screwing around (literally).
Easy peasy. YMMV...