Thursday, September 23, 2010

The first commercial modem

The first commercial modem is manufactured in 1962. The Bell 103 by AT&T is the first modem with full-duplex transmission and frequency-shift keying. It has a speed of 300 bits per second. AT&T has the modem market all to itself up until 1968 when the Federal Communications Commission establishes competitive policies for modem use.
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