Re: Episode 14: Christmas Eve shenanigans
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Dec 24 2015 16:37:26
>> I seem to remember seeing a few internal modems that had a front panel
>> with modem lights that would fit into a 3.5" floppy drive bay, but
>> those were few and far between.
DM> I've never seen one of those. Definitely a cool feature, but so few users
DM> would even know what the lights meant, it was kind of a geek-feature
DM> anyway. I use a USRobotics (Sportster) external modem for my BBS dial-up
DM> line today and often check the LEDs out of habit. Oh, and when I don't
DM> want it to pick up the line, I just turn it off. :-)
That's true, being able to easily turn it off is another benefit of an external
modem. :)
Nightfox
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