Fwd: Acoustic modems?

You can still buy acoustic couplers, I bought one several years ago. It definitely does better than 4800. If I recall correctly mine does 9600 baud and possibly higher. There are two markets for acoustic couplers. One if traveling sales people. A acoustic coupler can be used from a pay phone, so they can connect on the road. The other is for people who do a lot of traveling outside of North America. Its easier to connect an acoustic coupler to a phone than to try and find the appropriate phone jacks. In some hotels, particularly in Europe, the phones aren't jacked, so unless you take the phone apart (I have a friend that carries a complete tool kit for this purpose), an acoustic coupler is your only choice. If I remember correctly I paid around $150 for mine. -- Dr. Mark Green mark(a)cs.ualberta.ca Professor (780) 492-4584 Director, Research Institute for Multimedia Systems (RIMS) Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX) University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada