Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Help with UDS 212LP
Message-ID: <3804@phri.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 89 02:05:04 GMT
References: <122@zorch.UU.NET>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller) writes:
> I have a clunky UDS 212LP modem sitting around that I would like to use as
> an inbound modem

	You can't.  We used to have a few 212LP's around here (they are
proably still in service somewhere).  It was a nice modem for its day.  Fit
nicely under a desk phone.  Fairly cheap compared to what else was on the
market at the time.  And needed no electrical connection (it was powered by
the phone line, hence the LP in the name).  Unfortunatly, it couldn't do
auto answer.  I think the fundemental problem was that to be line powered,
you are *very* limited in how much current you can draw from the phone
line.  They probably couldn't power the auto-answer circuitry and stay
within the power limits.
-- 
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