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From: earle@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Greg Earle)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Any use for old AT&T Digital Dataphones?
Message-ID: <235@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 2 Apr 88 10:09:57 GMT
Reply-To: earle@mahendo.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle)
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Organization: Gainfully Unemployed Ltd., Lakeview Terrace  CA
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Auctions around these parts are spewing out old AT&T Digital Dataphones.
They can be had for ~ $10 each.  I passed on getting a set of Digital 9600's
and Digital 56Kb's last time; another auction is coming and more 9600's are
coming up.  From what I can tell they [the 9600's] have an RS-232 jack and a
standard 4-wire telephone connection output.  They appear to be around 4 years
old.

Now it's obvious that they don't have any dialer capability; could one do
a manual dial and manually connect two of them together, or is it hopeless
without a much higher grade leased line (Telebits, these ain't)?  Given
the essentially non-existent cost, are low-grade leased lines mega-expensive?

In other words, should I waste $20 on a couple of these, or are they just
fancy paperweights at this stage?  (I had this idea of presenting any company
I work for the chance to merely pay for the leased line, so I could run SLIP
and get them a `free' Internet connection.)



-- 
	Greg Earle		earle@mahendo.JPL.NASA.GOV
	Indep. Sun consultant	earle%mahendo@jpl-elroy.ARPA	[aka:]
	(Gainfully Unemployed)	earle%mahendo@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV
	Lake View Terrace, CA	...!{cit-vax,ames}!elroy!jplgodo!mahendo!earle