3 Aug
1998
3 Aug
'98
6:20 a.m.
At 02:01 PM 8/3/98 -0400, you wrote:
When I worked with sync comms, the hardest thing to simulate was the POTS
lines. We eventually built a product that never sold (but got lots of
in-house use) that simulated a C.O., down to line faults like one-way
connections and the like.
I'm surprised by this. I'd thought about ways of linking any number
of old PCs at up to 2000 foot distances, and thought about recreating a
POTS network and using now-free modems to send small amounts of data
between them and to a central computer... but I'd never seen a
reference to doing this in FAQs on the net. I'd assumed that
was because it was too easy, not too hard.
- John