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Dennis Hayes
Modem inventor
Dennis C. Hayes (born 1950) is the inventor of PC modem and founder of Hayes Microcomputer Products, a manufacturer of modems mostly known for introducing the Hayes AT command set, which has subsequently been used in most modems produced to this day.
Hayes had a student job at AT&T Long Lines, in an engineering group, while attending Georgia Institute of Technology.
He left Georgia Tech in the mid-1970s to work at an early data communications company, National Data Corporation in Atlanta, a company that handled electronic money transfers and credit card authorizations. Hayes's job was to… More on Wikipedia →
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Hayes AT command set
The Hayes command set is a specific command language originally developed by Dale Heatherington and Dennis Hayes for the Hayes Smartmodem in 1981.
Modem
A modulator-demodulator, commonly referred to as a modem, is a computer hardware device that converts data from a digital format into a format suitable for an analog tran…