Google, Wikipedia directly on ASCII terminal?

[Fred Cisin]

>> The tightwad fix is to bodge a PP3 battery onto a line splitter, which is 
>> often enough to convince modems that there is a phone line. There is no 
>> dial tone nor ring signal, so you need to turn off dial tone detection on 
>> the calling modem ("ATX1", IIRC) and somehow tell the answering computer to 
>> send "ATA" to answer at the right time.
On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> Sounds like an interesting hack.  But should probably be good enough for most 
> of what is desired.
> I'm going to have to look into this.

If you don't need the "handshake" for dialtone, ring, caller-ID, etc., 
then all you need is some electric power.


For MAXIMUM realism, then the "answer" end should also get occasional 
random "wrong number", incoming fax, "I'm calling to offer you a great 
deal on" (I don't listen past that).