Grab your Phillips, it's...
The Latest from The Screwdriver List!
Modulator-demodulator. It converts electronic information into sounds which
can be sent thru phone lines. Your 56kbps modem converts those sounds
coming to your computer BACK into electronic information at the rate of
56kbps (but FCC- limited at present to 53kbps).
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From: "The Chief" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of The_Screwdriver_List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 11:29 PM
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."
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> That's all for now from The Screwdriver List
> "Red Stripe to Pin 1"
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That's all for now from The Screwdriver List
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