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From: jackm@agcsun.UUCP (Jack Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Re: remote data communication
Message-ID: <873@agcsun.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 91 18:56:59 GMT
References: <1683@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <9575@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>
Reply-To: jackm@agcsun.UUCP (Jack Morrison)
Organization: Ampex VSD Golden Engineering, Golden, CO
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In article <9575@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> craig@ernie.Rosemount.COM (Craig Taylor) writes:
>How about using cordless phones and modems?

Besides being a bit expensive, you'd have to go through some contortions to
get them to work without being connected to a real phone line (unless it had
an intercom function). What about an FM wireless mike? I've seen little
ones advertised in Radio Electronics for under $15. And 300 baud modems are
pretty cheap these days...


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