The Internet of Things will revolutionize everything! Manufacturing? Dog walking? Coffee bean refilling? Car driving? Food eating? Put a sensor in it! The marketing makes it pretty clear that ...
A simple workaround for all this was an acoustic coupler, a device that played your modem’s sounds directly into a phone’s receiver without any electrical connection. Modem speeds were slow ...
A modem that connects to a telephone line without the use of an acoustic coupler. Almost all modems are of the direct-connect type. See acoustic coupler. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.
Acoustic couplers were widely used in the days ... bed that the handset was placed in and may also have contained the modem. See A/D converter and modem. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ...