Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!atari!neil
From: neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: modem connections
Message-ID: <1072@atari.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 88 23:24:03 GMT
References: <8806062023.AA09302@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Atari Corp/Mktg
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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?
> The telephone is modular; there's just no jack.
> Is plugging the modem into the handset cord safe?

The easiest way is to purchase a cable with a modular plug on one end and
half-moon shaped connectors on the other.

Open up the phone housing by loosening the screws, then loosen the screws
for the red and green wires.  Attach the red and green wires on your cable,
and screw the case back together.  You'll end up with a wire coming out of
some part of the case, which you plug into the modem.

Usually red goes to red and green to green, but sometimes you need to
swap them.

This is what I do when I'm on the road in a non-modular hotel room.

--->Neil
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