Phone Link Acoustic Modem
date: label: Date made
content: Before 1978.
name: label: maker
content: U.S. Robotics
notes: label: Description
content: This 110 Baud modem with acoustic coupler was was one of the early modems with acoustic couplers used by computers for communicating over telephone lines. The telephone was first dialed and then placed in the cradle where it would talk to the other computer. These modems were superseded by internal and external modems that did not need to use a physical telephone headset.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sid Paskowitz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0265.02
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0265.02
label: accession number
content: 1997.0265
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer Peripheral
label: Object Type
content: microcomputers
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall marterial)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.5 cm x 24.4 cm x 9.2 cm; 2 15/16 in x 9 19/32 in x 3 5/8 in