Ever since 6th grade I have been fascinated with computers. One of the first things I learned was the ASCII chart (American Standard Code for Information Interchange). I knew that the alphabet started with decimal 65 (letter 'A') and ended with decimal 90 (letter 'Z').
Special characters such as a space was 32 and a carriage return was 13. Ah yes, these numbers were like religion to me and I knew them like the back of my hand for writing BASIC and assembly programs.
So it is with great sadness that I learned today that one of the founding fathers of ASCII has died.
Bob Bemer, a computer pioneer who helped invent the ASCII coding system and also published warnings of the Y2K problem in the early 1970s has died after a battle with cancer.
You can read more about it here:
CNN.com - Computer pioneer dies - Jun 23, 2004
Bob Bemer
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I have been reading your posts and articles. You by all means have quite a vast knowledge in computer telephony products (VOIP). So i was wondering if you could please help me out.
I am actually looking for any open standard based SIP phone that can work with 56/33K modem. I did alot of search on the net but the products that i have found are all proprientry.
like www.grandstream.com has a wonderful wondeful product but it only works with ethernet, i need to have same open standard SIP phone that could work with 33.6/56K tyep modems,
Imran
Thanks, glad you enjoy my articles. I believe the answer to your question about a dial-up Internet phone can be answered with the links below. Although I am not sure for some of them if they use SIP or if they are proprietary.
Some probably are since they want you to use their pre-paid phone cards. Still, worth checking them all out. Let me know if any of them do solve your problem and if they don't I will do some more research.
- AVNET-160 is a Dialup VOIP Gateway which provides high-performance dial-up Voice over IP
http://voip-forum.tmcnet.com/voip-forum/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=960&KW=dial%2Dup
- DialAnywhere Phone™ interoperates with any standards-compliant H.323 / SIP / MGCP VoIP terminals and Gatekeepers
http://www.callonthe.net/IPphone2.html
- Dialup Lan Internet Phone SiPtel C01
http://www.sipmicro.com/dlip.html
Hope this helps!