Hal Kaplan wrote:
> The term "modem" is a combination of two words: MOdulate and DEModulate.
> This goes back to the days when all communication lines were analog and
> the digital computer signal had to be MOdulated to convert it to analog
> and then DEModulated to convert it back to digital.

All I know is that when customers ask me to modem them some files, I'm 
more than happy to do so.

I don't tell them that I'm actually teeoneing them their files. Unless 
they look at the headers, they'll never be the wiser.

Whil


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