Transcription: Modern telecommunications provide businesses not only with a means of talking person to person, but also computer to computer. The modem is a device which converts a digital signal from a computer into an analog signal, which can be transmitted down a telephone line to a second modem, which reverses the process. Modems can be used to transmit any type of computer data, from programs to pictures. Modems form an integral part of every facsimile machine in use today.