Comments on: Hayes compatible modem: What it means https://dfarq.homeip.net/hayes-compatible-modem-what-it-means/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hayes-compatible-modem-what-it-means David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:10:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: garyohuk https://dfarq.homeip.net/hayes-compatible-modem-what-it-means/#comment-57606 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:49:05 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=24438#comment-57606 At Apricot we had our own memory mapped internal modem card, which was for us a big seller, but the advent of (I kid you not) Cardfile, with its in built phone dialler forced us to write a Hayes shim later to convert ATDnnnn (etc) into internal modem commands.
Interesting about ITU-T V.253, thanks for that nugget.

]]> By: CoZ https://dfarq.homeip.net/hayes-compatible-modem-what-it-means/#comment-57605 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:23:29 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=24438#comment-57605 At $299 it wasn’t cheap, but nothing else was cheap then either.

And we wonder why survivalist bias is entrenched in our lives.

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