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From: root@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: What's in a Line Test Set?
Message-ID: <1740@argus.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 90 19:45:03 GMT
References: <1723@argus.UUCP> <1990Apr10.142252.21706@sctc.com>
Organization: NJ Instit. of Tech: TEIES Project
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In article <1990Apr10.142252.21706@sctc.com>, bies@sctc.com (Marty Bies) writes:
: Considering that you have $50 in parts.  I would think that the time 
: it would take to build and debug the whole thing and make it reasonable
: to use would far exceed the $200 cost of a new test set. 

That might be if I were to purchase the components new.   However, a fair
amount of the materials can be scravanged from old projects here.  Furthermore,
I don't need components like the keypad because all I do is monitor the
presense/absence of modem signals.  Lastly, I've always wanted to find out
how these beasts work.

: But then,  my budget is like a bottom-less pit :)

Let's put it this way, I can't even purchase rj11 connectors.