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Re: Very Early Modems


Scott Dorsey (kludge@panix.com)
24 May 2005 11:47:58 -0400

Brad Houser <bradDOThouser@intel.com> wrote:

> Here is a picture of a 1958 AT&T modem (not sure if this is the first
> commercial modem, the Bell 103. If so it was 300 baud):

> http://www.att.com/history/milestone_1958.html

No, the Bell 103 is a little plastic box only a little bit larger than
a Hayes external modem.

This appears to be a photograph of an encrypted data system using a
carrier key tape.

--scott

"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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