-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFIUUA8S9HxQb37XmcRAjsdAJij3wCRqjmFtPO29YqM8eU4uZnIAKCzPWHw 6AbuPx2ywdbr3dq+A35SSQ== =6x27 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
