*you’re

Here you go grandma! Your new printer!

https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/2047791626462783781.jpg

I’m sure you think you did

While the dissolution of the Soviet union was great for the world, you would not have wanted to be a citizen of Russia living in Russia at that point. I have family members who still live there and did then and it was utter chaos and also created local power vacuums that got filled with local mafia style gangs or local police who also just acted like local mafia style gangs.

But yeah, as far as the federal government not shitting in Russians, that would be a proper window of time

That’s not why I use a whole different shell. It just happens to be a perk of the one I use.

…and again…

You got all mad for people posting no real solution and when given the chance, offered no real solution

Has there ever been a period in history where Russians haven’t been oppressed by their government or the church?

What’s a GUI?

Or just use zsh

You’ve addressed nothing from my commen

The irony…

I’d dive fully into circuitboard electronics

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/erjfg/update_iama_guy_who_believes_he_knows_who_was/

Holy shit he’s 6’ 7"???

Couldn’t have been accomplished without democrats

After dieselgate and the discovery that VW was subjecting monkeys and humans to exhaust fumes in experimentation, their sales are still fine.

I honestly don’t think consumers give a shit about what negative things companies do.

I’m starting to think they’re not

You went from a 300bps to 14.4k?? lol I’m surprised you lived through that experience

This one?

Yep the acoustic couplers. WarGames is from 83.

https://www.cio.com/article/220297/the-technology-of-wargames.html?amp=1

The modem David Lightman used to connect his computer to the outside world, as seen here and in the movie, was an IMSAI 212A. In reality though, it was only labeled that way for the movie. IMSAI never actually produced or sold such a modem. What was actually used in the movie was a Cermetek 212A modem, which could communicate at 1200 (!) baud.

Back in the day before computer modems could be directly connected to a phone line, phone handsets were placed in acoustic couplers connected to a computer, in order to convert sounds to electrical signals (and vice versa). In WarGames, an acoustic coupler is used prominently by David Lightman. Ironically, though, it wasn’t actually needed since his ISMAI (er, Cermetek) 212A modem didn’t need a coupler. It was included purely for the visual effect. Ahh, movie magic!