One cable would talk to the keyboard, Bhatt recalls, while another would connect a modem.
When Assange turned sixteen, he got a modem, and his computer was transformed into a portal.
Most phones that support Bluetooth can act like a modem and connect to an ISP.
After the usual screech and squawk sounds ordinarily associated with a modem connection, e-mail is downloaded and received.
The computers had a modem, a good, chunky keyboard and the ability to write up to 11 pages of text.
The Dell comes with more memory, a modem, and a 19-inch monitor.
He came to her house, and armed with a modem, he set up an e-mail account and hooked her up to the university's computer system.
The average road warrior wants a laptop loaded with megabytes of memory, a high-speed processor, a vivid color screen, a modem, a CD-ROM player, and plenty of disk space.
For PocketPC, Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HWP - news - people ) Jornada users get the same rate as Palm users, but can't yet purchase a modem through EarthLink.
An ultralight laptop, the Gateway 200, which weighs in at 3 pounds and includes 8021.b wireless, Ethernet and a modem all built in--making it easy to connect in all sorts of places.
Due to launch before Christmas in Japan and sometime next year in the U.S., Dreamcast will ship with a modem, and Sega is already hard at work developing unique multiple-player online games.
Apparently, Comcast's CEO was able to demonstrate such a modem in front of the public and cable competitors alike, and while he claimed that it could reach speeds of 150Mbps, it was the testing that got everyone all riled up.
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And now anyone with a modem and a few dollars can become his own publisher by using simple software to create a blog -- a kind of diary of opinion or a running journal that also provides links to articles and other Web sites.
The Net lets anyone with a computer and a modem compete mouse to mouse with mainstream media. (Drudge's publishing empire is the living room of his Hollywood apartment.) But many of the Net's would-be Woodwards and Bernsteins are journalistic novices and wouldn't think, say, to ask court or police sources to confirm a rumor.
To upload the data to a computer, a patient holds a small wand over his chest that picks up the data and transmits it through a modem to a Medtronic computer bank. (Future versions will be totally automatic and transmit wirelessly.) For now doctors mostly use the device to perform routine checkups remotely or to evaluate the device after it fires up.
The 660LX comes standard with a gorgeous 256-color screen, 32 MB of memory, a 56K modem and a nifty voice recorder for capturing those fleeting thoughts.
Aircraft installations of the new technology will typically take place overnight and will require the installation of two antennas, one on each side of the aircraft, installation of a second modem and a software upgrade.
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Put another way, a normal modem will download a pop song from the Internet in 15 minutes.
Swisscom also offers a USB modem for notebooks from Huawei and a mobile hotspot from ZTE.
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First you connect one of these HomePlug devices to a broadband modem or router and then into a wall socket.
By plugging a router into a cable modem, ordinary people are stepping into a complex world, where they need to understand some highly specialized technology, according to Michael Gartenberg, VP and Research Director, Jupiter Research.
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The design, which combines a CPU and modem on a single chip, is more affordable, efficient and compact than systems that use two chips, said Lin.
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If you use a cable modem, your first choke point is much closer to you since you share a maximum amount of bandwidth with other users in your neighborhood, which is why your data rate varies.
On a smaller scale, Shark Multimedia's new Leopard USB modem is a pocket-size external modem that also operates with any H.324 video phone system.
Most voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems install on a home computer and require a special modem.
On the receiving end, listeners need a multimedia co-processor and a 28k modem or better.
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As for wireless connectivity, the options today include Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G via a GSM modem chip.
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Many of the set-top boxes supplied by NTL have a cable modem inside that could do the same job.
Every time it needed to process a credit card, it would use a telephone modem to log into the bank.
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