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If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its connection via the plain old telephone system. That cacophony of screeches and ...

* Reader weighs in on analog phone lines Last week we talked about the need for supporting traditional modems, fax, and TTY/TDD devices over a VoIP network. Even though the idea of taking digital ...

I'm looking for a device that plugs into a phone line, and when the line rings, the device has a set of dry contacts it activates for some set number of seconds. Anything like that out there?

The opposite of cutting-edge: It's the era of 5G and gigabit-speed internet, and dial-up connections are dead in most places. However, that hasn't stopped a Japanese company from rolling out a ...

FORT PIERRE, S.D. -- Johnny Smith has a new digital cell phone, but he relies on an older, analog bag phone when he travels the wide-open spaces in the western part of the state to line up cattle for ...

Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to ...