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sittingduck says:
Quoted message said:their ancient phone
modems.
Ancient, maybe, but can you name another type of modem? Don't need 'em for
anything but the phone. (Null modems don't count ;-P)
Steve "Department of Redundancy Department" (with apologies...)
Stephen Baker said:sittingduck says:
Quoted message said:their ancient phone modems.
Quoted message said:Ancient, maybe, but can you name another type of modem? Don't need
'em for anything but the phone. (Null modems don't count ;-P)
Well, I *am* looking right at a "Surfboard SB4100 Cable Modem", FWIW.
Bill "/you/ were the sitting duck for that one, SB!" S.
Sorni says:
Quoted message said:Well, I *am* looking right at a "Surfboard SB4100 Cable Modem", FWIW.
Bill "/you/ were the sitting duck for that one, SB!" S.
Acksherley, a "cable modem" is not a "real" modem (stands for
"modulater/demodulater"😉 since the signal is already digital, not analog, and
thus does not need to be modulated at one end and demodulated at the other.
It is just more convenient for the doofi out there to refer to it as such,
since the job it performs is similar (but waaaaay faster)
Steve "no sitting duck"
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