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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
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Subject: Re: Phone system basics
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Summary: "Understanding Telephone Electronics" - an inexpensive
	 reference.

In article <2882@yale-celed.yale.UUCP>, sweedler@yale.UUCP (Jonathan Sweedler) writes:
> 
> Is there a good tutorial that explains the basics of the phone system.
> ...

  A very nice simple reference is a a book, Understanding Telephone
Electronics, "Developed and Published by Texas Instruments Learning Center".
It is written as a tutorial, with quizzes at the end of each chapter.
Chapter titles are:
1 The Telephone System
2 The Conventional Telephone Set
3 Electronic Speech Circuits
4 Electronic Dialing and Ringing Circuits
5 A Microcomputer in the Telephone
6 Digital Transmission Techniques
7 Electronics in the Central Office
8 Network Transmission
9 Modems - Telephone Service for Computers
10 Wireless Telephones

It is easy to read, and inexpensive.  I bought a copy at Radio Shack for
$3.49 a few years ago, and I believe they still carry it.  My copy is
Copyright 1983, and I don't know if there is a more recent edition, but
even the 1983 edition is reasonably current and the basics haven't changed.

--henry schaffer  n c state univ