Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: digital voice via modem
Message-ID: <1989Oct26.152903.2499@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <799@mccall.uucp> <776@ariel.unm.edu> <804@n3dmc.UU.NET> <1813@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 89 15:29:03 GMT

In article <1813@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>The data rate on something like a Telebit trailblazer modem is
>almost good enough to support digitized half-duplex speech...

Off on a complete tangent, if you want to carry on a voice conversation
on a line with a Trailblazer connection on it, it is apparently possible
to just pick up the phone (on each end) and talk.  It's a bit, um,
noisy, and the Trailblazers get annoyed by all this extraneous chatter on
*their* line, but voice is intelligible and the connection doesn't break.
Amazing.
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