4 Sep
2009
4 Sep
'09
4:16 p.m.
> Unless you are going for some ridiculously high
speed, like over 300
> bits per second, that wouldn't work with acoustic coupling, why would
> you need a DAA?
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Chuck Guzis wrote:
How many modern handsets can even fit an acoustic
coupler? The one
in my workshop is one, but then it's an old rotary dial wall model.
Even the rotary dial Trimline that I have in the garage won't work
with an acoustic coupler. I think I've got a 2500 series desk set
stashed away somewhere...
I have seen acoustic couplers that fit the newer squared-off handsets.
Somebody said that those are a "type K"; is that correct?
And, at Oakland airport [2 years ago], I saw a hotels display that had a
phone as part of it for making reservations. It had a Krown TTY (one of
the cheapest TDDs), that had been manually cut and glued to make its
coupler fit the squared-off handset!
If somebody is putting together a tube (valve) based modem, would it be
likely that somebody with that many tubes might also have a normal
handset?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com