WOPR is alive - and has found his real voice again!

[@OzzyMandias]

I had the ZX Spectrum and before that the ZX81...

[@compu85]

One nitpick: would WOPR have a 56k modem? :)

[@RTSRetroTechShed]

good spot, should be a 1200 baud - but didn't have a sample handy :)

[@BilalHeuser1]

I remember seeing this movie in the theater when it came out. The 1980's always had such cool movies!!

[@RTSRetroTechShed]

I agree, some great movies from the 1980s

[@Rick_Todd]

Hello Joshua.

[@datukseng8825]

Greetings professor falken Shall we play a games?

[@gksudolol]

Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?

[@EdWensell]

We're still trying to figure out why he needed the acoustic coupler when he had the Cermetek (labelled IMSAI) modem.

[@RTSRetroTechShed]

Yes, I always wondered that too, when he had a perfectly good V.22 modem sat there :)

[@monopalle5768]

As a kid with my first modem, months down the line, I found out all the dial-up noise was coming out of an on-board speaker, on the modem.... Somehow, I guess I thought that was just what a modem "sounded" like.... EVERYONE put up with the sound, we should have just cut the speaker.

[@chitlitlah]

At least with later modems, it was possible to turn off the speaker. I did that at one point, but I didn't like not knowing when it was almost done.

[@EdWensell]

Most of us techies ran with it on. If you dialed the wrong number and heard a person answer you had the opportunity to pick up the line and apologize. While connecting, you could tell by the tones how good/bad the connection was going to be or if it was struggling to make the connection. Each of those bings and growls have a meaning.