Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!iboga!berger From: berger@iboga (Mike Berger) Subject: Re: old AT&T 1200 bps modems Message-ID: <1991Jun25.174544.5329@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1991Jun23.193855.26002@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun24.021644.450@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 17:45:44 GMT Lines: 24 aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt) writes: >In article <1991Jun23.193855.26002@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@iboga (Mike Berger) writes: >>tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) writes: >>>I may have an opportunity to buy a few old AT&T dataphones.... >>These modems are very well made and worth the $ 5 - $ 15 they fetch at... >>I assume that you're talking about the 212A modems, and not a 202 variety. >On a related note -- we picked up about ten of these, but they have >a "funky" connector wired to them -- for a PBX I imagine -- about an >inch thick and 4" long. Does anyone have a wiring schematic for that >type of connector so we can tear them off and put a normal DB25 on it? >-- *---- Are you sure you really have 212 modems? They sound more like the "channel interface" boxes. I think the accessory auto-dialers also had similar connectors to what you've described. -- Mike Berger Department of Statistics, University of Illinois AT&TNET 217-244-6067 Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu