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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:35:33 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)   
   wrote:   
      
   >Paul S Person  writes:   
   >>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.   
   >   
   >In 1974, we called it an 'acoustic coupler'.   
   >   
   >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler   
      
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