50-year-old modem: inside view
Several years ago, the author visited a flea market hosted by W6TRW at the Northrop Grumman car park in Redondo Beach, California. Between the polar bear-shaped TVs and the plethora of phone chargers and power supplies was a wooden box with a lock, a wooden handle, and a DB-25 connector on the side. Next to the connector is a switch: half duplex - full duplex. The author realized that [β¦]