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Wild Bill Hickok
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ON THE AFTERNOON of August 2, 1876 in Deadwood Gulch, Dakota Territory, saddle tramp Jack McCall wanders into the No. 10 Saloon on Main Street. The taciturn gunslinger, his shooting iron well-oiled, saunters to the bar and orders a shot of whiskey. Leaning on the bar, among others, is Calamity Jane, the female bullwhacker known far and wide in the gold camps and frontier towns of the West as a shootin', drinkin', fightin', whoop-it-up character. McCall hoists his drink and surveys the crowd, his eyes finally settling on a table where four men are playing a game of poker.
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Modem technologies: the choice is yours. (includes related article about 56-kbps modems)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: EDN
; ...thinking about a merged modem/audio subsystem. Modems are standard in almost...emerging 56-kbps-modem technologies (see...herring: 56-kbps modems"). Evaluating...functions; and * HSP modems that execute both the modem algorithms and the...
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Magazine article from: Macworld
; ...the fall of 1994, modem makers were already selling modems using that technology...of 14.4-Kbps modems found, owning a fast modem doesn't mean you...after 14.4-Kbps modems became popular and inexpensive, the modem infrastructure is...
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Modems: Still gathering speed
Magazine article from: Telecommunications
; ...innovations driving the modem's growth such as the...early 1995 of v.34 modems, and the strong uptake...users now have a PCMCIA modem. However, recently...exciting development in modem technology for many years...is significant. DSVD modems give users the line optimising...
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Magazine article from: Multichannel News
; ...starting lineup in the cable-modem race, clarified that announcement...and development into cable modems and associated standards...off a prototype cable-modem card that slides into the...today's internal phone modems, Frank Gill, executive...
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Magazine article from: Orange County Business Journal
; ...Semiconductor Systems and modem giant U.S. Robotics...dueling displays of modems that allow for faster...supremacy in the modem industry. Rockwell...of the world's modems - more than 100 million...themselves, to buy its modems; Rockwell, meanwhile...can persuade other modem makers - ...
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Modems: coming to a Radio Shack near you? Operators and vendors move to introduce retail-friendly high-speed modems. (cable television system operators)(Telemedia Week)
Magazine article from: Broadcasting & Cable
; ...friendly high-speed modems Have modem, can travel. That...the MCNS-compatible modems in systems where highspeed modem service is already extant...Angeles and Atlanta. MCNS modems are in the design stage with most modem makers, according to...
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Modems take Route 56. (new 56Kbps modem technologies) (Technology Information)(Technical)
Magazine article from: Computer Shopper
; ...factors that limit modem speeds. In effect...communications channel. Modems operating at 56Kbps...purely digital modems to the PSTN. As...on your 56Kbps modem--comes in as...from all previous modem standards in that 56Kbps modems are capable only...
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Modem power. (includes a related article defining communications terms) (a correction to this article appears in the Jan. 1992 issue, page 333) (Computer Shopper's Guide: Modems) (Buyers Guide)
Magazine article from: Computer Shopper
; ...telephone lines. Modems translawte digital...In fact, the word modem is just a contraction...description of a modem's work. The best of today's modems take advantage of...SPARE Neither men nor modems are islands. Above...with others. One modem would do the world...
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Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...someone else's, modem manufacturers build...features into their modems that make them work...internal 2,400-bps modems, often with a fax modem on the same card...understood by many modem users. Rest assured, though, that all modems require some sort...
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Magazine article from: Multichannel News
; ...discounts to cable-modem customers who buy their own modems, minimizing any...and the cost of modems in the retail space...Inc. is hard on modem makers, requiring...customers who buy their modems, which ranges...incentive to purchase a modem," Denning added...
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