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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!ole!ssc!tad
- From: tad@ssc.wa.com (Tad Cook)
- Subject: Re: Gateway Telepath Modem
- Organization: very little
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:54:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.055446.24750@ssc.wa.com>
- References: <57a5NB1w165w@iowegia.uucp> <1992Jul18.205108.18916@wam.umd.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul18.205108.18916@wam.umd.edu> jdowdal@wam.umd.edu (John Dowdal) writes:
- >In article <57a5NB1w165w@iowegia.uucp> billtutt@iowegia.uucp (Bill Tutt) writes:
- >>The reason they are backordered so much isn't because of the 14.4k modem
- >>part, but was because their fax firmware didn't work with some pretty
- >>obscure faxes.
- >>
- >Bzzzzzt! These modems could not even DIAL if the phone line had any
- >voltage across neutral (the vast majority of home lines have this).
- ^^^^^^^
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- What is NEUTRAL? Phone lines have a Tip lead and a Ring lead. Ring is
- negative with respect to Tip. The line has 48 vdc on it when idle.
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- What is this "voltage across neutral" that "the vast majority of home
- lines" have?
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