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From: alexr@apple.com (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: RJ11 ==> French phone jack adapter
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Date: 11 Sep 90 16:43:18 GMT
References: <343@siodo.UCSD.EDU>
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In article <343@siodo.UCSD.EDU> laver@siodo.UCSD.EDU (Mick Laver) writes:
> My boss is taking a MacPortable with a FAX/Data modem to Nice in a few
> weeks. I've been trying to find a source for an adapter to allow him to
> use a RJ11 plug with a French phone jack (I'm just assuming I'll need
> one, and I can't really send him with wire strippers and a soldering
> gun.)  I'm not having any luck with sources like the French consulate
> or travel agencies. Can anyone point me to a US source for such an
> adapter ... or at least in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks much.
> 
>         Mick Laver
>         mlaver@ucsd.edu

The reason you can't find one is because the phone systems are entirely 
different. As far as I recall (from the days I worked on Apple's Portable 
Modem 2400), Japan, Canada, and the US are similar, everybody else is 
different from that. You'd need a French modem. Apple makes a Portable 
Modem 2400 for foreign countries that takes an intelligent adaptor 
specific to the country. You might want to buy one over there, especially 
if they do make a US adaptor.

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