Re: Modem music?

["Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Didn't people do that with the AppleCat modem way back when?

Oh the memories this brings back. From
http://www.jammed.com/~jwa/Machines/cat/

This thing had a built in tone-generator (a four voice synthesizer.) Many
applications popped up sporting such names as CatMusic, Apple Cat Voice
Synthesizer, MaestroCAT, and, my personal favourite, The Cat's Meow.
CatMusic and MaestroCAT both had tunes cunningly recorded by their authors
stored on disk, ripe for playback-- and with such astounding quality, it
oftimes beat the quality of the existing market of soundcards. Alas, no
manufacturer ever had Cat support for their games, so the sheer genius of it
all went unnoticed by the corporate world. The Cat's Meow used this tone
generating ability to a slightly different end; it faithfully recreated the
signalling tones of the telephone company, enabling curious individuals to
phreak out and touch someone, either via it's trunk-seizing 2600hz,
Keypulse, Multifrequency dial, and Start tones, or through what many see
today as the downfall of public telephones, the so-called Redbox tones. Yes,
friends, nickels, dimes, and quarters-- tones for 3 coins, all generated by
The Cat's Meow. It was an immediate hit among the underground.