Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?
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On 06/12/08 09:49, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:57:58PM +0200, Misko wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:07:14PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>> What modem? "Winmodems" aren't modems, they're sound boards with the
>>> wrong audio connector.
>> I have read something like this many times. What am I interested in
>> is if I can make my regular soundcard force to behave like modem?
>> What I have in mind is to connect phone line instead of one of
>> the speakers and use that to connect to ISP.
>
> this is surely do-able. The very first modems were essentially a
> speaker and a microphone that were connected to the telephone reciever
> by a couple of rubber cup-like things.
Ah, the "good" old, slow, usually large, acoustic modem. If your
handset didn't match the design of the modem, you were stuck.
The *only* benefit to them was that you could use them with a pay phone.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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