Re: Thinkpad and voice over internet

[Steve Hultquist <ssh@wwsi.com>]

At 01:27 PM 7/12/96 -0400, billy@mix.com wrote:
>> I'm new to all this, but I thought you can not use the modem at 28.8
>> speed *and* play sound.  I know I couldn't the other day (couldn't
>> play a .WAV file while I was logged in on the Internet).
>
>I don't do this very often but with Netscape and .wav file sounds I
>don't have any trouble running at 28.8 and receiving them.  I'd heard
>the same thing you did, and was pretty surprized the first time I
>tried this - it worked!  I think real audio worked too (can't recall).

It depends on the ThinkPad. This got to be possible starting about with the
755CX. Before that, the Mwave was a little less capable, and doing both v.34
and sound taxed it too heavily (I suspect compression as the culprit). FWIW
and YMMV.

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