The First Civilian Commercial Computer Modem In 1962, AT&T introduced the Bell 103 Data Phone (seen here), which set the standard for 300-baud (approximately 300-bps) full-duplex modems.

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These two devices help power your home internet connection. It helps to know how they function. Here are the details.

One additional consideration in the modem decision is that AMD—Intel’s primary PC CPU competitor—has already started partnering with Qualcomm for 5G (a partnership that will likely grow ...

Sometimes, hardware projects get cancelled before they have a chance to make an impact, often due to politics or poor economic judgment. The Tsushin Booster for the PC Engine is one such project, p… ...

Like the home computer itself, modems were sold as transformative technologies, consumer electronics with the potential to change your life.

If your company only has the resources for a single telephone line, you can use it to support a telephone, fax machine and a computer modem. While ideally you would have a dedicated phone line for ...

A developer, stuck working on an airgapped computer, developed a virtual modem for connecting to the internet using HTML5 audio.

Those of us with separate modems and routers (some Internet connections have the two functions combined into a single device) are likely to focus on the router and ignore the modem. But, like a ...

The local cable television company says a few of its Internet customers with computer communications hookups dating back nine or more years must buy new equipment.