what is a modem

[will]

 

[BruceM]

Modulator/demodulator. That being said, this is a newsgroup about Microsoft
Access, a relational database program. There are many resources on the web
for general questions such as yours. You need to learn how to use those
resources. A search may have led you to something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem

For general question such as this you should conduct your own search.

 

[Steve Schapel]

Bruce,

Give Will the benefit of the doubt here. Maybe he is using Microsoft
Access Version 1 for DOS, the original Access, which as you possibly
know was not a database program, but communications software - modem
required.
http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/msaccv.htm

 

[BruceM]

What was I thinking? And I still have a 5.25" drive somewhere, so maybe I
could even have tested it out.

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

Bruce,

Give Will the benefit of the doubt here. Maybe he is using Microsoft
Access Version 1 for DOS, the original Access, which as you possibly know
was not a database program, but communications software - modem required.

http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/msaccv.htm

;-)

Always nice to see someone do a "extra effort" to be polite here.

However, you are correct!

On the other hand, since people are starting to ask what a modem is, you can
well tell we are getting older as it been many years since I used a dial up
line and heard that eeeeeewaaaaaooooooooo as the modem connects...

 

[Larry Linson]

Bruce,

Give Will the benefit of the doubt here. Maybe he is using Microsoft
Access Version 1 for DOS, the original Access, which as you possibly know
was not a database program, but communications software - modem required.

http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/msaccv.htm

Ah, a walk down memory lane... I thought I had been promoted to the Raceway
when I got a 1200 bit per second modem for use with local BBS, like the old
Fidonet hobbyist network.

Perhaps I should leave the dark veil of history over my earlier use of 150
Baud teleypes and the successor 300 bit per second modems, both with "mighty
mainframes" of the day.

Never used the original (communication software) Access, though.

Larry

 

[Rick A.B.]

I guess it's long past the stage where they will ask what a VIC 20 was
or what Electronic bulliten boards where for.

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

I guess it's long past the stage where they will ask what a VIC 20 was
or what Electronic bulliten boards where for.

I recently updated an old app (not originally developed by me) and one of
the changes I made was to remove several message boxes that urged the user
to "put a floppy disk in drive a:". We were already getting calls from users
saying "but I don't have a floppy drive", I'm sure it wouldn't have been
much longer before we started getting calls asking "what is a floppy drive?"

 

[Larry Linson]

I guess it's long past the stage where they will
ask what a VIC 20 was or what Electronic
bulliten boards where for.

I'll let you define the VIC 20 (which I never used). Small, early,
monolithic computer, IIRC.

I guess I'd say an EBBS is a one-node USENET, denied the steriods that
muscle up the Internet.

Though some EBBSes were connected, with slow and simple connections, into
networks, like Fidonet. A typical BBS would connect via voice phone line and
modem, one or a few times a day, to exchange messages with another station
or other stations on Fidonet. Local responses might be rather quick, but it
could take quite a bit of time to see responses to your post from other
locations (unlike now, when I often see responses within seconds or minutes
from parts of the earth far, far away from me).

Larry

 

[Clif McIrvin]

I'll let you define the VIC 20 (which I never used). Small, early,
monolithic computer, IIRC.

I guess I'd say an EBBS is a one-node USENET, denied the steriods that
muscle up the Internet.

Though some EBBSes were connected, with slow and simple connections,
into networks, like Fidonet. A typical BBS would connect via voice
phone line and modem, one or a few times a day, to exchange messages
with another station or other stations on Fidonet. Local responses
might be rather quick, but it could take quite a bit of time to see
responses to your post from other locations (unlike now, when I often
see responses within seconds or minutes from parts of the earth far,
far away from me).

Larry

This memory lane stuff is getting to me <g>.

I was aware of Fidonet, but really never found occasion to actually use
it. In my history, AdidasNet was much more common. (Grab the floppy and
run over to the other workstation ....)