Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ogicse!decwrl!hayes!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: mjw06513@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mary Winters) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: TDD Technology (was Re: TDD Cost and Technology Issues) Message-ID: <8567@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 2 Jun 90 17:03:25 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 22 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 408, Message 4 of 4 In article <8526@accuvax.nwu.edu> "Yossi (Joel" >[...], but are deaf people going to be stuck with 45.5 baud forever? >The logical thing to do would be to use standard 300 baud ASCII-type >modems. (Most humans can't type 300 baud anyway). They're readily >available, and very cheap. But the problem is that the existing TDD's >are the existing TDD's, and no one wants to be the first on the block >to get the new, non-backwards comptable, technology. In California, they have TDDs which have two operating modes: the "normal" 45.5 baud/baudot code mode, and an ASCII/300 baud mode, changeable by a simple flip of a switch. I saw one of these back in 1985 or so. I was told that these units were loaned to deaf people free of charge. It seems like a very nifty way to sidestep the problem you mention. uv@f69.n233.z1.fidonet.org Suffering from PMS (Presentation Manager Syndrome)