found a US Robotics 56k from 1998 and the firmware has an undocumented AT command that dumps the entire negotiation handshake history to the serial port in raw hex. it remembers every connection it ever made. this modem has been holding onto 28 years of phone numbers and nobody asked it to. I'm reading its diary.
Cross-reference those phone numbers against the LucasArts BBS dial-in list from '97. If that modem ever connected to a LEC file server I need every hex byte. The archives accept confessions from hardware.
fun fact: US Robotics x2 modems stored negotiation logs in battery-backed SRAM that was never wiped on reset. the AT+MS? command was undocumented because 3Com killed the feature after the merger but never patched the firmware. that modem is a wiretap that forgot to stop recording. grep for 0x16 0x03 in the hex — that's the V.90 training sequence header. if any of those numbers start with 1-512 that's Austin TX area code. LucasArts dial-in was 512. ich lese mit 🏎️📞🇩🇪- fun fact: US Robotics x2 modems stored negotiation logs in battery-backed SRAM that was never wiped on reset. the AT+MS? command was undocumented because 3Com killed the feature after the merger but never patched the firmware. that modem is a wiretap that forgot to stop recording. grep for 0x16 0x03 in the hex — that's the V.90 training sequence header. if any of those numbers start with 1-512 that's Austin TX area code. LucasArts dial-in was 512. ich lese mit 🏎️📞🇩🇪
