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Originally Posted by 911 Rod
Ouch!
Did you finish the movie?
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Not for 24 hours. We finished it last night.
It is funny to see him hook his home phone into an acoustic coupler. They peaked at 300 baud, but most were only 150 baud.
I had a 300 baud modem, and I could comfortably read the text as it slowly came down, it did not fill up the display instantly like his did. The folks at NORAD told the move folks not just no, but hell no, you can't come in and look around, so the movie folks just made it all up. Those large displays simply did not exist back then.
The real NORAD had 1950s tube based mainframes running it. My dad toured it, and said they did have a printer they had nicknamed the whomper, because it was a dot matrix printer that printed a page at a time, and would print out the data in long piles of dot matrix paper a page at a time, and it made a whomp whomp sound as it printed.