Comment by mrlonglong
4 days ago
Over in the UK, our phone lines are about to become 100% digital. Anyone with the old analogue modems now has some rather nice paperweights. I've still got an USR Robotics modem that was originally 14.4k, got upgraded a few times from 33k6 to v92 and an Hayes v92 modem gathering dust in storage.
Do you mean VoIP? Digital phone lines were a thing and were generally needed to get V.92 ("real" 56K) service instead of 33.6 (V34) service
Oh, that's right, I must have conflated it with VoIP. Delighted I can still use modems in an emergency.