At 8:29 AM 2/11/96 -0500, Dr. Dimitri Vulis wrote:
Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> writes:
At 01:54 PM 2/10/96 EST, you wrote:
It's not difficult to imagine that governments will seek to regulate the possession of modems again. Some may recall that in the U.S. it used to be technically illegal to connect a modem to the phone jack without a permissio from AT&T.
Actually, permission from the local phone companies, who owned the system, I assume? (Though I don't actually remember which parts of The Phone Company were involved in the Carterphone decision.)
Nope. I used modems back when the local phone company _was AT&T. :-)
Back in the really dark ages, we used acoustic couplers (300 b/s max) which held a telephone handset, so there was no direct connection to the telephone lines. The phone company asserted that they were also illegal, but their argument was kind of weak!