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 ...

As distressing a prospect it may sound, our world did exist before social media. Those were some interesting times with nary a poorly lit portion of Cheesecake Factory fare to critique, exactly zero ...

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 ...

Wow, so much nostalgia, thanks for that! My first modem experience was a standalone terminal with a thermal printer and phone coupler sometime in the early 80s. I have no idea where my dad got it.

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 ...

An engineer discovers that it’s not always a bug in the software or hardware that is causing all the trouble. And that troubleshooting can be a really grungy job. By Dennis Coburn, Contributing Writer ...

[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=26108681#p26108681:1qqweq91 said: KhunRoger[/url]":1qqweq91]Hmph! If we're really getting into it... The first ...