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Re: History of Hayes Modem

John Levine (johnl@iecc.com)
14 Jan 2006 05:07:45 -0000

>>>> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: My question would be, _who_ was the
>>>> inventor of the MO(dulate)DEM(modulate) in that case?

> Didn't have to be "invented" by anyone:

The idea of using different tones to encode telegraph signals goes
back well into the 1800s. Didn't Bell tell his backers he was working
on a harmonic telegraph?

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