Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mmm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!stolaf!mmm!mrgofor From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Orphaned Response (Radio Shack Message-ID: <584@mmm.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 12:32:02 EST Article-I.D.: mmm.584 Posted: Wed Mar 5 12:32:02 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Mar-86 06:22:03 EST References: <4907@alice.UUCP> <44000039@uiucdcs> <714@bonnie.UUCP> <237@micropro.UUCP> Reply-To: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR) Organization: none Lines: 34 Summary: In article <237@micropro.UUCP> edg@micropro.UUCP (Ed Greenberg) writes: >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! >-- Every time I've moved, I've wired up the new phones in my new house, and I've done it for friends, too - and I have never had to use more than two wires for any phone - even in a two-line house. -- --MKR If Man were meant to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 disciples.