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From: edg@micropro.UUCP (Ed Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response (Radio Shack
Message-ID: <237@micropro.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 18:00:36 EST
Article-I.D.: micropro.237
Posted: Tue Feb 25 18:00:36 1986
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References: <4907@alice.UUCP> <44000039@uiucdcs> <714@bonnie.UUCP>
Reply-To: edg@micropro.UUCP (Ed Greenberg)
Organization: MicroPro Int'l Corp., San Rafael, CA
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In article <714@bonnie.UUCP> dnc@bonnie.UUCP (Don Corey) writes:
>I needed to buy some coiled line cords a few months ago. While all of the cords
>I looked at had four connector jacks on them, some of them only had two wires
>in the cord. Radio Shacks cord had four wires. A telephone only uses two wires,
>but I needed four wires for my application. Just as an aside, one of the three
>cords I bought from Radio Shack was defective.
>Don Corey
>AT&T Bell Laboratories

My telephone, (A Western Electric 2500 set with the ubiquitous 
"BELL SYSTEM PROPERTY -- NOT FOR SALE" stampted in the baseplate, has
four wires running from the modular connector in the handset to the four
connection points (two each for mouthpiece and earpiece.)

Most every telephone I know of had the same connection.  Most standard
sets have one wire each from the earpiece and mouthpiece connected to
the same screw on the network box (I forget which one.)  Thus, a set
could actually be wired with a 3 conducter cord and a jumper in the
earpiece.  I have never seen a telephone set with two wires for the
handset.  (I've never even seen one with 3.)

Taco Bell:  Part of the nationwide Bell System!
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