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From: carl@sdcsvax.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response (Radio Shack
Message-ID: <1519@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 01:23:10 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.1519
Posted: Fri Mar  7 01:23:10 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 21:54:58 EST
References: <4907@alice.UUCP> <44000039@uiucdcs> <714@bonnie.UUCP> <237@micropro.UUCP> <584@mmm.UUCP>
Reply-To: carl@sdcsvax.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein)
Organization: EECS Dept. U.C. San Diego
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In article <584@mmm.UUCP> mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR) writes:
>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.
>>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.)
>>
Some of us are talking about the cord from the base unit to the handset
(4 wires), others are talking about the cord from the base unit to the
outside world (4 wires, 2 necessary).