Similar options have long been available on home audio hardware and modems for the same reason.
These plugs are common on older fax machines and modems, and used on some security and similar equipment.
DCD is very important on modems, as it is the computer's primary way to find out that the modem has lost its connection to the remote host.
On early modems, the baud rate was the same as the bps rate, which may be why the two terms are mistakenly used synonymously today.
The department also had an XDS 940 timesharing system which would support up to 32 users on dial-up modems.
People are relying more on telephones, modems, facsimile machines and scanners as well as computers to help them with their jobs.
The modem has switches found on other Hayes-compatible modems; they are set by software.
An additional consideration was that the developers wanted to create a game that did not rely on then-rare networks and modems, an issue in marketing Minotaur.
The name comes from the company's focus on modems (serial COM port was named COM1).
Even with improvements to the phone system allowing higher speeds, this splitting of available phone signal bandwidth still imposed a half-speed limit on modems.