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		sopooneo on April 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google BBS Terminal – What Google would have looke... Why did modems bother to output those noises to the user anyway?

ranit8 on April 15, 2012 [–]

Think what would happen if the number is wrong and other side of the line has a phone, instead of a faxmodem. A human attends the call.

Or am I wrong and that is the noise you are sending to them? Now I'm curious.

joshu on April 16, 2012 | [–]

This sounds right to me.

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