From: John Allain <John.Allain(a)donnelley.infousa.com>
Anyway, as far as I can remember the thing had No
IC's
in it. It was all discrete components and dozen(s) of
thimble sized things in it that I assumed were tuned
inductors.
Does this sound right? A Modem of completely analog
devices?
They were analog right up to the 1200baud and even then
there was a fair amount of analog up till DSP got cheap
about 10 years ago.
I have a 110/300 baud that was used with a TTY back
before 78! nearly 11"x8"x2" box with a board crammed
mostly with O-amps (709/741 types).
Allison