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eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
I did a custom Google search from 1/1/2000 to 1/1/2005. Came up with this:
If you click on Try It, you'll get a download for OS 8-9/OS X with Classic and Windows.
Your mileage may vary. Says it needs to be bought after 7 days.
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I love how it has a $199 introductory price for a "limited time only". It's probably been ~25 years at this point 🙂
Edit: Although the actual purchase link doesn't work. I wonder whether they'd give a discount if you emailed them today... or whether the message would just go into a black hole.
Edit: Although the actual purchase link doesn't work. I wonder whether they'd give a discount if you emailed them today... or whether the message would just go into a black hole.
TheShortTimer
macrumors 68040
Amethyst1
macrumors G3
I love that site’s pin-stripe background. Even better, MegaPhone’s manual has a 1997 copyright and some screenshots in it are from System 7. Those were the days.
TheShortTimer
macrumors 68040
Here's your answer:
They're still paying a company every month for the site to remain accessible though?
eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
Amethyst1
macrumors G3
B S Magnet
macrumors 603
I’m surprised, frankly, no one in the post-OS X realm thought to develop a utility for hardwired voice telephony for modem-equipped Macs.
Granted, this was coincident with a time when everyone was looking to buy their first mobile phone and ditch their land lines. But not even an open-source project (that I’m aware of) thought to try this out as a proof-of-concept exercise.
Granted, this was coincident with a time when everyone was looking to buy their first mobile phone and ditch their land lines. But not even an open-source project (that I’m aware of) thought to try this out as a proof-of-concept exercise.
eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
OP is asking about using a prehistoric modem to make phone calls on a PowerPC Mac. Having used a modem to connect to and run a BBS from 1985 to 1991 and again from 1999 to 2001 to connect to the internet (before the meteors hit Earth and wiped out the rest of the dinosaurs), I can attest to this prehistoric context.
headlessmike
macrumors 68000
B S Magnet
macrumors 603
eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
If the 'new normal' is in reference to the internet, my 14 year old self (in 1985) would have done quite a lot to get the always on 24/7 connectivity I have now. To be able to just 'go' versus waiting until 9pm to use the modem, telling everyone in the house I was using the phone, opening a terminal program, manually dialing the number, waiting for a tone, then putting the phone down and hoping the modem picked up the connection would have made me very happy.
And my dad picking up the phone to make a call then cursing when he heard the tone (and the inevitable yelling at me) would have been avoided. Also, $300 phone bills are avoided too.
If the 'new normal' is us dinosaurs are all dinosaurs - well, I'm okay with that.
B S Magnet
macrumors 603
On the latter, 24-hour connectivity would have been neat in the days of dial-up, but my parents would never have it. 🙁
On the former, I’m making a wry reference to 2001 and to a very specific reference found, briefly, in the short-lived, faux-children’s variety series, Wonder Showzen, from 2006–07.
The reference involves a brief scene with the number 11 (the episode’s “brought to you by” number) being “two better than the number 9” (the episode’s original “brought to you by” number) — until the foam talking puppet 11, after having this brief argument with the foam puppet 9, is struck by the airborne number 9. 11 crudely “burns down”. The main muppet-like character, witnessing the spectacle, says, “I hate the new normal.” The subtext runs way deeper.
Unfortunately, YT wiped all reference to it, but the episode — itself an intentional “bootleg” on the original, yay postmodernism — is still up, as a bootleg, on Dailymotion (just index to 1:45 and watch the next 30 seconds).
Relatable content. 🙂
I dared never to dial a long distance number, because the repercussions would have been far, far more severe than a stern yelling-to and/or grounding, by a certain, violent alcoholic parent I ran away from at the ripe, old age of 16.
Just watch the clip. At this point, one sort of needs to have a certain lived memory — to be of a certain age, i.e., today’s dinosaurs — to appreciate the gallows humour of the mid-2000s moment in the clip. 🙂
Hello all,
I've downloaded abdialer and tried to call myself using the line provided by my internet company over the cablemodem (it has an rj45 next to the LAN ports).. it worked!! (I pay less than a cent per month for that line)
but the call hungs automatically, maybe because the trial version?
Long story short: I built a RAS server just to serve a DialUp connection to my old Macs into the workshop (also because why not).. so I was looking for a software to use a PowerBook as an telephone with Mic and ear for testing.. but can also be used to call someone
I've downloaded abdialer and tried to call myself using the line provided by my internet company over the cablemodem (it has an rj45 next to the LAN ports).. it worked!! (I pay less than a cent per month for that line)
but the call hungs automatically, maybe because the trial version?
Long story short: I built a RAS server just to serve a DialUp connection to my old Macs into the workshop (also because why not).. so I was looking for a software to use a PowerBook as an telephone with Mic and ear for testing.. but can also be used to call someone
When was the last time you saw a Powerbook connecting to the internet via Dial-Up connection? 🙂
TheShortTimer
macrumors 68040
AdamBuker
macrumors regular
Wonder Showzen was low-budget, crude, crass, and devoid of any sense of moral decency. It's style of humor was a harbinger some of the strange and dark humor found in internet dumpster fires like 4chan and newgrounds.
So naturally it's a 10 out of 10.