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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On 13 Nov 2025 17:14:51 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan   
   ) wrote:   
      
      
   <"that way" is with a long "o">   
      
   >It's been pronounced that way, in my experience, since I was in   
   >college, circa 1983.   
      
   Although this isn't when I heard it, in 1974 a professor illustrated   
   (proudly) his remote access to the campus computer by placing his   
   telephone handset on a box which then ... well, you can actually /see/   
   this in the film /Wargames/. Whose tech was intentially retro (but   
   visually impressive, which was the point) when it came out and   
   downright primitive today.   
      
   But I don't recall him calling it a "modem" by any pronounciation. It   
   was years later that I started encountered mentions of them in various   
   computer magazines.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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