WHOOPEE!

From: James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com>
Date: Tue Dec 8 00:39:43 1998

At 10:28 PM 12/7/98 -0800, Sellam wrote:
>
>Me & Eric Smith were just going over this trying to figure out whether or
>not we needed one for the original DC Hayes S100 modem card. The DAA was
>basically a device that converted the digital signals coming off the card
>into analog tones. You could only get this from Bell back in the day and
>you had to pay dearly for it.

Quote from 'Independance Day' (I love a good 'blow-things-up' movie!):

"That's not entirely accurate..." B^}

There was no conversion of digital to analog done in the DAA. Specifically
in the case of the Hayes for example, the (analog) audio modulation was
done in the cute orange blob on the board. The only digital signals coming
off the board drove the relay in the DAA box for acquiring the line and
pulse dialing. Beyond that, the DAA provided 'protection' and
coupling/limiting of the analog signals from the board to the phone line.

>The plexi-glass covered box that comes with the Hayes Micromodem ][ is a
>DAA.

Yep...

-jim

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