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From: kim@spock (Kim Letkeman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Picking phone up while modem in use
Message-ID: <3955@kim>
Date: 23 Jul 90 13:53:25 GMT
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Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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In-reply-to: bruce@balilly.uucp's message of 22 Jul 90 12:29:33 GMT

In article <1990Jul22.122933.3749@blilly.UUCP>, bruce@balilly.uucp (Bruce Lilly) writes:
| 
| I have a "Real Hayes" Smartmodem 1200 which *does not* disconnect the
| PHONE jack .... (it doesn't even *have* a PHONE jack, just the single
| connector for the telco line).

It's just a bit obvious that a modem cannot disconnect a phone line
that is not physically present ....

| I'm certain that Toby *knows* that some "Real Hayes" modems don't do what
| he claims they do (since I e-mail'ed him last time he said this).

If you have only the above modem as your sample space, I would suggest
that you are misinterpreting his postings ....

| I don't object to Toby, or any other representative of a vendor, making
| statements about his products, *provided that the statements are factual
| and not just marketing hype*.
| 
| Readers of this newsgroup should be advised that not all Hayes modems have
| the feature claimed by Mr. Nixon.  I would hope that in the future Mr.
| Nixon would be somewhat more carefule in his statements (I'll give him the
| benefit of the doubt by assuming that it wasn't *intentionally*
| misleading).

Toby did not say that all Hayes modems had a separate line for the
phone. He said that all Hayes modems disconnected the phone when in
use. This has the obvious implication that there must be a phone line
to disconnect. I think this article requires more benefit of the doubt
than Toby's ....

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Kim Letkeman    mitel!spock!kim@uunet.uu.net