Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? I am using the type on program that
is in the vicmodem manual, using said vicmodem and I know that the
phone is working and i know that data is sent through from the bbs so
i have kinda ran out of ideas.
reddit / bbs

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PhotoJim99 · 2019-10-28 22:56

Is the switch on the side of the modem set to O (originate) mode
instead of A (answer) mode?

The green LED on the side (or is it red? haven't used a VICmodem since
1985) will light up once you have carrier.  Your terminal needs to be
set to 300 bps and probably 8 data bits, 1 stop bits and no parity.

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Meeshkin · 2019-10-29 00:20

Yes it is set to o and the led is in fact red and I'll set up the
terminal to see if I can get 300bps I know it was in the vicmodem
manual so I prolly will have a way to

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Meeshkin · 2019-10-29 00:37

So the program I am using is on page 7 of the vic modem 1600 manual
and it doesn't explain how to change baud rate and data but settings

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PhotoJim99 · 2019-10-29 00:44

It depends on what terminal software you are using.  It's done in
software, not on the modem.

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Meeshkin · 2019-10-29 00:58

Yeah I'm using the software on pg7 of the vicmodem manual that is just
a BASIC program about 20 lines long
There also aren't many dial up c64 bbs boards I found 2

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lucidphreak · 2019-10-29 02:38

It almost looks like you have the handset cord connected to the
modem??

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PhotoJim99 · 2019-10-29 04:28

It's possible the BBS you're dialing doesn't support 300 bps.  Some
more modern smartmodems don't work well at 300 bps, even if they
should.

Double-check and make sure you haven't made any typos, particularly in
the OPEN command.  That's where you set baudrate and parity.

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Meeshkin · 2019-10-29 10:53

Yeah that's what is designed for to dial up using the phones keypad
instead of using the computer