Only a few years ago personal computer users had two choices when they went to hook up their PCs to phone lines. At that time, modems–the devices that enable computers to transmit information over ...

For anyone who experienced it, the screeching hiss of a modem handshaking over copper phone wires is unforgettable. The technology may have tied up the family phone line, but modems were the gateways ...

[phreakmonkey] got his hands on a great piece of old tech. It’s a 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Acoustic Coupler Modem. He recieved it in 1989 and recently decided to see if it would actually ...

Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. Some of the following, for legal reasons, may or may not be ...

Back in the day, there were boards. Bulletin Board Systems. BBS’s. No Net, no Web, no cyberspace, nothing. Just boards, and their ugly stepchildren, D-Dials. All strung together with phone lines, hand ...

45 years after it was first created, Livermore Data Systems’ “Model A” Acoustic Coupler Modem finally gets hooked up to the Internet, and travels to the World Wide Web at a whopping 300 baud. The slow ...

Loved the article, Lee. BBS's played such an integral part of my youth that I found it difficult to respond at first; so many memories and discoveries and emotional entanglements came flooding back. I ...

For those of you under the age of 45, or who have never been in a museum, this story is going to require a bit of explanation. A long time ago, in a land far away, there used to be only one phone ...

What do you need to call a bulletin board? A computer, of course, and a modem, a device that allows a computer to ”talk” over a telephone line. (Modems translate incoming sound waves to digital ...