Modem vs Tonepad - What's the difference?
modem | tonepad |
A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line.
To transmit by modem.
* 1992 , Jim Kimble, How to get started with modems (page 73)
* 1994 , Carole Marsh, Jurassic Ark! Alaska Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures (page 7)
As nouns the difference between modem and tonepad
is that modem is modem while tonepad is a form of simple modem that generates tones used to control a device at the other end of a telephone line.modem
English
(wikipedia modem)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Personal modeming is most prevalent in the U.S., where a modem generally doesn't have huge taxes slapped on it, and after-tax income is comparatively high.
- “Books” can even be faxed or modemed to you!