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...

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