Analog modem emulator?

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 07:45:26 -0700 (PDT)
> Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
>
> > It won't work to just plug the modems together by their phone jacks.
> > You still need line voltage or else they won't work.
> Yes. But "better" modems have a "leased line" mode where they don't need
> extra voltage. If this fails there is still the way with the 9 V
> battery, as already mentioned. With this you only need "ATA" (IIRC)
> to initiate a carrier handshake between the modems. Or configure the
> modem on the terminal server side to do "auto dial at DTR"...

Still doesn't solve the multiplexing problem (which a PBX does solve).
Unless you don't need multiplexing, in which case you should eat your foot
for dinner.

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