The winmodems were the worst. That’s why I ended up recently getting a USR USB modem, and made sure it was the full modem, not the winmodems. On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 9:46 AM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 01/22/2018 09:37 AM, Devin Heitmueller via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
It's worth noting that there was a third generation of modems where they actually removed the DSP and did everything entirely in software (to reduce cost). These "winmodems" did all the signal processing on the host CPU (including error correction) and then the modem hardware itself was just a simple D/A. These were the norm in the mid to late 1990's unless you bought a more expensive modem such as the US Robotics Sportster.
Fortunately, these ill-advised products were short-lived, in the grand scheme of things.
-Dave
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