Thanks for an interesting write-up. I experienced the full circle at work. I found myself in meetings with people suggesting "new solutions" and me saying, "We tried that 10/15/20 years ago and it didn't work, but with these tweaks it might." Or, "Yeah, we used to do that, it was great. Why did we stop?"
I remember in WTC Lab 106 some of my interns dabbling with POTS modem cards and digital voice, auto caller attendant apps and how we might integrate that into our manufacturing operations - Man Machine Interface PC to send out critical alarm phone messages. Every so often someone called the lab and about 100 VAC would be on certain exposed terminals. If you happened to touch one during a ring event, it would cause great vocal response! I adopted that home brew robo caller on a PC for my son’s Cub Scout Pack 362, where I was the Cubmaster. I recorded Monthly reminders of Pack meetings, event messages and auto dialed the phone list on a timed schedule. I found early home cassette tape answering machines need me to repeat the message twice to be fully recorded. Or if Junior answered the phone, he might hand it to mom or dad after the first go around.
My favorite tech end use was when I was Nopi Soki District Chair. I facilitated the monthly unit leaders Round Table meetings. That was during the diversified business projects era and we traveled a lot! I recorded video tape and sent my SONY Watchman for one of the members to run the tape at the start of the meeting. I became known as “Bruce in a Box”
My first laptop was the Tandy model 100. 8 lines, 40 column LCD display with acoustic couplers for the 300 baud modem to dial into VAXmail.
It's so funny how everyone who makes a conferencing system thinks of doing this. One of the companies I've advised, SignalWire, did a feature very similar to Latitude's "Meeting Noises" in their SignalWire Work/Events platform through a feature called ClipEEze. Check out the feature description under the More... link here. https://signalwire.com/products/events/features
Thanks for an interesting write-up. I experienced the full circle at work. I found myself in meetings with people suggesting "new solutions" and me saying, "We tried that 10/15/20 years ago and it didn't work, but with these tweaks it might." Or, "Yeah, we used to do that, it was great. Why did we stop?"
I remember in WTC Lab 106 some of my interns dabbling with POTS modem cards and digital voice, auto caller attendant apps and how we might integrate that into our manufacturing operations - Man Machine Interface PC to send out critical alarm phone messages. Every so often someone called the lab and about 100 VAC would be on certain exposed terminals. If you happened to touch one during a ring event, it would cause great vocal response! I adopted that home brew robo caller on a PC for my son’s Cub Scout Pack 362, where I was the Cubmaster. I recorded Monthly reminders of Pack meetings, event messages and auto dialed the phone list on a timed schedule. I found early home cassette tape answering machines need me to repeat the message twice to be fully recorded. Or if Junior answered the phone, he might hand it to mom or dad after the first go around.
My favorite tech end use was when I was Nopi Soki District Chair. I facilitated the monthly unit leaders Round Table meetings. That was during the diversified business projects era and we traveled a lot! I recorded video tape and sent my SONY Watchman for one of the members to run the tape at the start of the meeting. I became known as “Bruce in a Box”
My first laptop was the Tandy model 100. 8 lines, 40 column LCD display with acoustic couplers for the 300 baud modem to dial into VAXmail.
Those were the days!
Bring back 'meeting noises'! That would be the key differentiating feature of all the new conferencing technologies.
It's so funny how everyone who makes a conferencing system thinks of doing this. One of the companies I've advised, SignalWire, did a feature very similar to Latitude's "Meeting Noises" in their SignalWire Work/Events platform through a feature called ClipEEze. Check out the feature description under the More... link here. https://signalwire.com/products/events/features
I loved this write up ! Very well written, easy to comprehend and also recall all the important points …
Thanks, Shank. This was a memorable time for me!