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Chris schmandt writes: "This was a commercially available packet modem for use over analog cell networks in the late 1980s. It was used to communicate between a moving vehicle and a Lisp Machine back at the Lab, for the Back Seat Driver, the first real time spoken driving directions system. (See James Davis PhD thesis "Back seat driver: voice assisted automobile navigation" http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/14225) It's more of a memento than tech that we developed, but it was key in the system my student Jim Davis built."