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In article <DRW.91May29003457@paley.mit.edu> drw@paley.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes:
> Hayes figured out a workable way to drive a modem and autodialer that
> worked even if you had the most minimal hardware and operating system
> support.  And as a result, Hayes-compatible modems have taken over the
> auto-dialing niche of computer hardware.

I don't think that "+++" was responsible for that. I think that it's because
they were about the first hobbyist priced modem to provide dialling at all,
other than things like Woz's Apple-II thingy. There were other modems that
provided command interfaces through the serial port (Ventel, etc), but they
were all commercially priced and out of reach of hobbyists.
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