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From: kimes@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: modem connections
Message-ID: <3017@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Jun 88 13:30:26 GMT
References: <8806062023.AA09302@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <8806062023.AA09302@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, SHAFFERJ@BKNLVMS.BITNET ("Jim Shaffer, Jr.") writes:
> Does anyone have a non-permanently-damaging way of connecting a modem to
> a telephone that's hardwired to the telephone line?

I have seen at least two ways to handle this problem.  If you have a standard
round mouthpiece (removable) on the phone, you can get a device that replaces
the mouthpiece and has a modular phone jack built-in.

The other way is a device that Radio Shack sells that slips over the earpiece
and the mouthpiece and basically converts your direct connect modem into an
acoustical modem.  It costs $49.95 according to the 1988 catalog.

> Is plugging the modem into the handset cord safe?

I don't believe that it will work.

					Kit Kimes  
					AT&T--Information Systems Labs
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