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This was basically an audio coordinate system (or just a 2D array): an X tone and a Y tone played at the same time.

Auditory....Vectors? (Thinking aloud)

The Quadrature Amplitude Modulation used by the modem (the last part of the sequence, which sounds like white noise) really is a sequence of auditory vectors.

Humans can't hear a phase difference.

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