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From: khan@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Will a PC talk with TTYs used by deaf people?
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Date: 29 Dec 90 16:39:12 GMT
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billbr@xstor.UUCP (Bill Brothers) writes:

>In article <110023@convex.convex.com> bstone@convex.com (Barry Stone) writes:
>>Will a PC with a modem communicate with the TTYs used by deaf people
>>over the phone?  

>Well, the real problem is that the ttys that deaf folks use are encoded
>using Baudot, not ASCII. What you need to find is a terminal program
>that will converse with BAUDOT devices. I haven't ever tried to find
>one, so I don't really know of their existence. 

To Barry Stone:

Such a program exists, but it requires an IBM *PC* (it uses the cassette port 
instead of a modem, as a standard PC modem won't connect to a TDD). The file
was called something like 'TDD56.ARC'. I don't have the file, but I have seen
it around (sorry, can't remember where. I thought it was on SIMTEL20, but a
quick grep of the files listing shows nothing with that name, so I'm probably
mistaken). 

Sorry I can't give you more to go on, but at least you know it's out there
somewhere. I posted this rather than emailing in case someone reading this
can provide more details.

Good luck!


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Scott Coleman                                         khan@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign