[ale] OT: ESP8266

[Boris Borisov]

Listening to dial-up tone of negotiating modems was full of anticipation.
Something was about to happen a new connection is about to get born.

Nowadays is just there :(

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 1:38 AM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Every Govt Fax machine does. It is the cheapest, easiest, way that I
> know to request an absentee ballot.  FAX!  Sure, it don't get printed
> on the other side and ends up in their email, but I didn't have to deal
> with stamps or the lag time of mailing.
>
> One of my sisters in SD was using free dialup until 2 yrs ago. She
> works at a University, so didn't see any need to have a connection at
> home. They have one cell phone and share it. It is almost always off. ;)
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:01:40 -0400
> Scott Plante via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
> > Are there any ISPs that take dialup anymore? ;-)
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 3:49 PM Boris Borisov via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I just bought the ESP8266 kit from Microcenter. Besides using it as
> > > IoT device I've heard that you can use it to emulate the dial-up
> > > modem so you can connect old machine to the internet. Anyone done
> > > it ?
> > >
> > > Perhaps I'm guilty for trying to avoid RTFM part :)
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