From The Screwdriver List: Re: List Trivia Question -- Week of 1/28/01

[Brian]

Hi, Modem comes from Modulator-Demodulator and the modem converts digital data 0 & 1 bits into within speech band audio tones for transmission over standard telephone lines.         ----- Original Message ----- From: The Chief To: Multiple recipients of The_Screwdriver_List Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:29 AM Subject: From The Screwdriver List: List Trivia Question -- Week of 1/28/01 Grab your Phillips, it's... The Latest from The Screwdriver List! It's time once again for The Screwdriver List Trivia Question of the Week! As usual, there's no million dollars if you answer it right, but I think that each of these questions will help at least one member on The List. Here's this week's puzzler: What does the word "modem" actually stand for, and what conversion does a standard 56KBps dial-up modem perform? Know the answer?  Then speak up!  The first member that posts the right answers is The List Trivia Guru for the week. Good luck! The Chief Mark L. Chambers Author, Technical Editor and Consultant Home Page: http://mlcbooks.somewhere.net Mark's Thought for the Millenium:  What good is a Web search engine that returns 324,909,188 "matches"? That's like saying, "Good news, I've located the information you want. It's on Earth." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ That's all for now from The Screwdriver List "Red Stripe to Pin 1" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++