• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    28 days ago

    They didn’t use an acoustic coupler as in the image any more, you are correct ;-)
    The noise was also still emitted by the more modern variants during dialing and connection establishment, and as I was reading the meme’s text without paying much attention to the symbolic picture, I instantly thought of the standard 56k modem we still had.

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      28 days ago

      Ahh.

      The sound was also very different with the later modems. I started on a 9600 baud, and moved to 14400, 28800, and eventually 56k, and they all had different sounds.