On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:26:53AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > 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. especially after shorting the receiver to ground with a pop-tab... A
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