Analog modem emulator?

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Pete Bartusek wrote: I doubt you'll find anything to do this, not that they don't exist, but if you do it'll probably be outside your price range. Sounds like a custom solution to me. Get a Linux box with a modem and an external switch (in this case "switch" meaning a PBX of some sort). A Panasonic 606 is perfect for what you need: small, easy to program (the default programming will work), and it's a hybrid so it uses both proprietary digital sets and normal analog sets (auto-sensing). They're also abundant and probably cheap by now. In fact, I think I have one I can sell you. A Panasonic 1232 is the same thing with just more ports (12 CO trunks, 32 stations) but overkill. Plug the 4 modems of the target box into one of the 16 extensions, then plug the modem on the Linux gateway into a fifth extension. The Linux modem can then dial directly into any one of the 4 target machine modems by dialing its extension number. Then, write some software to do the conversion :) -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]