110 baud modems

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 30-May-2001 Laura Creighton wrote:
 >  I am not quite sure if what we had was technically a modem or not.  We made
 >  them ourselves and got something like 120 baud out of them actually.  We
 >  thought they were quite the item.  But I can't remember what design we
 >  used -- the one that was the modem or the one that at least one physics
 >  professor said was technically not a modem (but install one in my office
 >  too _PLEASE_)  In those days I was just discovering which end of the
 >  soldering iron is the hot one, so I can't remember any better than this.
 >  When I next see Rob Pike, going to Lucent in a few weeks, I will ask him
 >  what we did if you really care.

Please do. I give a course in basic telecommunication for undergrad
students, and we do cover modems to some extent. It would certainly be
interresting to have a historical perspective.

greetings
/Mikael

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