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- From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
- Subject: Re: interesting modem idea -- please read!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.164953.13843@rtsg.mot.com>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <1992Sep6.004314.5323@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 16:49:53 GMT
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- hbechtel@luke.wsu.edu (H. E. Bechtel) publicly declared:
- >now with all of this do this:
- >digitize the sample from the phone line and compare it to super-high-speed
- >modems' analog tones
- >send the correct tones out through the stereo sound jacks to match it
- >divert the info directly into a modem package of some type.
- >
- >with these ideas, would it be possible to make a super fast modem using
- >amiga's abilities? a small box could be made to house all of the rca
- >wiring etc...
-
- I thought about this for a while. The whole idea of making a software
- modem is really neat, but I couldn't get over a couple of problems.
-
- You don't want to just sample and digitize the output of a real modem.
- The signalling specs are all available and it would be a lot easier to
- just start from there and do it from scratch. My stumbling block was
- that anything higher than 300 baud uses phase-shift-keying. The pitch
- (frequency) isn't enough to determine whether you've 1s or 0s, you also
- need to look at the phase of the signal. I think I figured out a way
- to generate phase-shifted signals on the transmit side, but it's beyond
- my knowledge how to receive them.
-
- Even if I could figure that out, it only takes us up to 1200 or 2400
- bps. Everything higher than that uses even freakier combinations of
- phase and amplitude modulation. I know *I* don't want to mess with
- that garbage! My Amiga couldn't handle it, anyway. I've just got a
- poor old A500 that has problems just scrolling the display at high
- speed. If it had to decode the analog signal as well I think it'd be
- tough to bring it above 1200 bps, *MAYBE* 2400.
-
- Now, 300 baud is pretty simple frequency shift keying. It should be no
- problem to make a software 300 baud modem, just a little bit of
- hardware to get audio in and out of the machine. It'd be cute, but 300
- baud is pretty pathetic these days. (Of course, when I bought my first
- modem way back when, 300 baud was common and 1200 was for the rich
- folks. My 300 baud MicroModem //e cost just about the same as my shiny
- new Supra 14.4 Faxmodem...)
-
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- Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not | Steven King
- having any opinions at all. | Motorola Cellular
- (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg [1742-1799]) | king@rtsg.mot.com
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