Re: History of Hayes Modem

> That's true. I felt the original posting implied that Hayes invented

>> something entirely new; which wasn't quite true. > As far as I know, his was the first modem to use in-band signalling. > It was really rather clever to build a UART into the modem and use it > to let the computer control the modem over the same channel as it used > to communicate with the remote system.

Nope, that honor goes to Bizcomp, who predated Hayes by two years.

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Jeff Sutter
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