tag:blog.tmcnet.com,2014:/blog/tom-keating//4/tag:blog.tmcnet.com,2004:/blog/tom-keating//4.93- 2014-03-29T00:52:06Z Comments for Bob Bemer, a computer legend dies VoIP & Gadgets blog - Latest news in VoIP & gadgets, wireless, mobile phones, reviews, & opinions Movable Type 4.38 tag:blog.tmcnet.com,2004:/blog/tom-keating//4.93 2004-06-24T14:44:25Z 2008-04-10T21:35:31Z Bob Bemer, a computer legend dies 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... Tom Keating http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/ 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

]]> tag:blog.tmcnet.com,2004:/blog/tom-keating//4.93-comment:97 Comment from Imran on 2004-06-24 Imran 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

]]> 2004-06-24T17:49:09Z tag:blog.tmcnet.com,2004:/blog/tom-keating//4.93-comment:98 Comment from Tom Keating on 2004-06-24 Tom Keating 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!

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