On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Julian Richardson wrote:
  just a thought, but were these modems ever designed to
connect to a
 public network? I've got a couple of old BT modems that seem to be
 designed to only work on a private, internal network (at least that's
 what the manuals imply), so maybe line voltages are different or
 whatever... 
Line voltages would not (and could not) differ unless it was some short
haul modem.  The higher layer protocols might though.
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