21 Feb
2003
21 Feb
'03
9:33 a.m.
Sure, but that has no relevance to the original
question of when modems
were first used to send binary data (not text) from one computer to another
over a telephone line.
What about ciphered text? In five letter code groups? With weather symbols?
Looks like a file to me!
In any case, I think this is all quite silly - another "first" debate. In
this case, the computer industry was the *last* group to figure out how to
use a modem - the voice guys used it, the telegraph guys used it, the
radar guys used it, and the teletype guys used it - all before the
computer guys.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org