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From: jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth)
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Subject: Re: Two-Line Adaptor Wanted For One-Line Phone
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Date: 21 Jan 91 16:18:53 GMT
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In article <16043@accuvax.nwu.edu> greg%turbo.atl.ga.us@mathcs.
emory.edu (Greg Montgomery) writes:


> I am getting another phone line installed in my house this week, and I
> am looking for a device I could attach to the phone and both lines and
> I can hit a button to switch between lines. ...
> Is it easy to make one?

Certainly it's easy to make one, but if it was me, I wouldn't. (Time
cost of a hack solution exceeds retail price of an available unit ...)

J & R Music World 1-800-221-8180 sells a "Arista 241445 Two Line
Console" which sounds like what you described. The unit shown in the
line drawing is a clunky little box with two (or three) switches, and
an LED.  The description goes : "Allows a single line phone to work as
a two line phone. Switch back and forth between lines. Hold with red
and green LED's.  Requires no external power."  Cost is $19.95, Item #
ARS 241445, from their winter catalog.


Regards, 

Jon Sreekanth

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