Hayes Microcomputer Products
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Hayes Microcomputer Products was a US-based manufacturer of modems. The company is known for the Smartmodem, which introduced a control language for operating the functions of the modem via the serial
Dale Heatherington with the prototype 80-103A
Micromodem II installed in an Apple II. The external "microcoupler" with the phone jacks and analog hardware were connected via the ribbon cable.
The original model 300 baud Smartmodem (1981)
Essential interoperability provided via DB-25, RJ-11 and power jacks. Later modems dropped the manual volume control and introduced a second RJ-11 for pass-through of the telephone line.
SupraFAXModem 14400
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The SupraFAXModem 14400 is a v.32bis modem. When it was launched by Supra, Inc. in January 1992 for US$399, the 14,400 bit/s model was less expensive than most existing 9600 bit/s models. This price/p
Hayes Microcomputer Products
…were strictly low-end offerings. In the early 1990s a number of greatly cost-reduced high-performance modems were released by competitors, notably the SupraFAXModem 14400 in 1992, which eroded price points in the market. Hayes was never able to respond effectively. The widespread introduction of ADSL and cable modems in…
SupraFAXModem V.32bis modem. The two-digit display can be seen on the right.
SupraFAXModem 144 LC modem (1996)
Sticker on bottom of SupraFAXModem 144 LC modem