BL> About 1988, and it was one of those superfast 2400 ones.
BL> It was American, I think. In those days there were no
BL> "approved" modems (or telephones either, for that matter).

PE> I bought my first modem around that time too, and I'm pretty
PE> sure there was a requirement for Telecom approval then too.

BL> I was involved in getting a Taiwanese telephone "approved"

Welp, you clearly fucked that up as comprehensively
as you fucked up the design of the T.29 then Bob.

BL> and the upshot was that Telecom "approval" was not a legal
requirement.

Fraid it was Bob.

BL> In response to the court ruling, Telecom relaxed its approval procedures,

Pigs arse they did, and the requirement continues to this day too.

BL> but modems were not even involved in that.

Fraid they were Bob, coz it was about what was connected to the
phone line. Didnt matter a stuff whether it was a phone or a modem.

And you might care to explain why, if modems were not required
to be approved, the first cheap direct connect one, the Dick
Smith 300baud modem, was in fact Telecom approved. Poor old Bob.

BL> There was no enforceable legal requirement
BL> for telephones, let alone modems.

Poor old Bob. You only have to look at some old Dick Smith
catalogs to see what complete and UTTER tripe that proposition is.

BL> As far as I know, the first legally approved
BL> modems came with Austel, years later.

Just goes to show what a complete heap of shit what you 'know' is
then doesnt ti Bob ?  No wonder no one is silly enough to employ you.
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