Word: modem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unusually lively colloquy. It is the nature of computer networks that they tend to throw together people who would otherwise never meet--never mind discuss something as intimate as one's personal beliefs. Thus on the Internet, Catholics suddenly find themselves keyboard-to-keyboard with devil worshippers, Jews modem-to-modem with Islamic fundamentalists. "I put the [Reverend Moon's] Unification Church right up there with the wonderful world of Mormon," someone with the screen name Marzioli posted recently on a Usenet newsgroup. The next message snapped back, "Marz, you are an ignorant disinformationist. Wake...
...hockey kinda takes forever to cover because the reporters either come back late from the games or modem their story in from faraway locales. So I would have to wait until late into the evening before I even had something to put into the paper...
...addition, a California tech start-up firm called Nikean Corp. (www.nikean.com) is currently working on a wireless cellular data modem to allow you to use the Pilot as a wireless e-mail/Web appliance and another accessory to turn the Pilot into a text pager. Look for these to hit stores in July...
Selection and support are both scarce, of course, but some of the deals are too hard to pass up. A friend recently bought a 14.4 PCMCIA modem for a notebook computer for $50 at the TPCs new closeout area, and Pentium computers have been on sale for as little...
...only half the battle. Hooking a nonstandard CD recorder up to an industry-standard computer may take a bit of doing--even for someone who's not afraid to read a manual. Then there's the bandwidth problem. Downloading full-length music CDs over even a high-speed modem will clog your phone line for a lot more hours than it takes to drive to the nearest Tower Records and back. That's assuming you can find a full-length version of the music you want. The RealAudio versions of songs that most Websites make available are hardly CD quality...