[rsayers]

This one was one of those weird experiments I tried as a teen and was pretty surprised that it worked. A buddy was staying over and we both had our PCs setup on our dining room table. I don't recall the exact year, but 95-96 probably.

My family had two phone lines (necessitated by my obsession with the Internet), so we started playing Doom in modem mode (one pc connected to the kitchen phone line, and a 50ft cable going to my bedroom). At one point i decide to try the direct connection. ATDT one end, ATA the other (i think the caller init string needed something to tell it to ignore the lack of dialtone) and it worked! At that point we restarted our game in serial mode. I hadn't thought of this in ages.