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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If the FCC got into digital communications early we would still be on dial-up at 300bd.


3 posted on 12/28/2010 11:48:48 AM PST by AU72
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To: AU72
In the early days when Ma Bell was still a monolith, you could go to jail for attaching a 300 baud modem to their 'network equipment'. Many don't remember acoustic couplers.

/johnny

6 posted on 12/28/2010 11:56:00 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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