Yeah and we didn't have to contend with batteries that crapped out in the lab or on the test.Originally Posted by Hawk-eye
Yeah and we didn't have to contend with batteries that crapped out in the lab or on the test.
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The mods have links to the glossary and acronym list in their sig blocks.
Sometimes acronyms make sense...other times this forum is worse than the military.
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I respectfully disagree. An acoustic modem allowed a computer to connect to a network via the phone system. You dialed your access number and placed your handset into the coupler. The modem "spoke" into the mouthpiece and "listened" through the ear piece, just like you and I do. It had a speaker and a microphone in the coupler which is how it spoke and listened. Why it was done this way instead of a direct electrical connection I don't know. Soon enough standard direct connect modems became available and I never cared enough to investigate.
As far as the asynchronous modem goes, before cable broadband almost everyone that was online had one. I topped out at a 28.8 before broadband became available in my area.
Like I said, a pretty long time.
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It just doesn't carry the same meaning, does it? I would have gone with Disgruntled Bird.I think I peed myself a little when I read "angry chipmunk"
Now that I think of it he does have some chipmonk qualities.
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Angrysparrow, that's the one!
I feel better about the acronyms since members a lot more senior than I mentioned troubles with them.
That was exactly what I was thinking as I was reading this.other times this forum is worse than the military.
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That cracks me up! " Plus a cubic azz-load more. Raging Racoon, rabid squirrel angry chipmunk!"I've been around computers a longgg time. I had a computer when a 300 bd acoustical modem was the be-all. I've been on-line a longgg time. Online since before there was a real "internet" to be online, well, on. Heck, way back when I even ran a fairly popular BBS.
In all that time I have never EVER seen a more abbreviation and acronym obsessed group such as here! WHAT the heck does 90% of this stuff mean?
I've seen haabs, kaqs, mwuq, baiacs, seeps, and my personal favorite, pp. Plus a cubic azz-load more. You guys definitely do NOT make it easy on the newcomers to figure out what the heck you're talking about!
Somewhere I ran across a member that had a list of some sort in their sig but silly me I forgot to mark it. The member was some kind of animally name. Rabid squirrel or angry chipmunk or raging raccoon, or something like that. No offense to you member if you are who I'm referencing!
Give us new guys a break will ya? Post a nice big fact sticky sign somewhere that reads DEFINITIONS OF GOBBLE-DY GOOK HERE!
Inquiring but overloaded smokey minds want to know.
As already pointed out, probably AngrySparrow. Any way, there is a sticky for acronyms, hopefully you have found it by now.
Well, sometimes it's a little confusing, especially when you are new here, no doubt. But hey, mostly we are not new(and you won't be new long) and mostly, from the context, we usually have some idea what is being discussed and can mostly figure out what is meant by the acronym. I think that most folks here are only going to type out " Hennessy hammock Ultra light Explorer Super Shelter or Jack r better Mount Washington four under quilt so many times in a given thread or post. It won't be long before we go to the acronyms.
I'm OK with it myself. There is always the glossary, and if worse comes to worse I can just ask, as I occasionally have to. I'm trying to do better myself, and use the actual word at least the 1st time in a thread. But my apologies, I often forget to do that. FWIW!
Last edited by BillyBob58; 04-10-2010 at 20:42.
message too short blah blah blah!Disgruntled Bird
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You guys are very funny, I just joined the other day and I can already tell I'm probably gonna like it here.
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