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From: cory@gloom.UUCP (Cory Kempf)
Newsgroups: alt.next
Subject: Re: Connecting the NeXT box to phone lines -- Where is my RJ11??
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Date: 18 Oct 88 15:47:08 GMT
References: <10639@reed.UUCP>
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In article <10639@reed.UUCP>, mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg) writes:
 
> But where is the RJ-11?  That's the little plug that is on the back
> of your modem that connects it to the phone system.
 
> The DSP will make a wonderful 9600 bps modem, but only if it can connect
> to the phone line to do modem like things.  How is this intended to
> be done?  Did NeXT just run out of space on the system board?

According to the article in this weeks MacWeek (page 8, 18 Oct 1988):
 "...although the on-board Digital Signal Processor chip 'contains
 80 percent of a 9600 baug modem,' Jobs said, and be promised that 
 missing 20 percent, including a phone line interface would be available
 inexpensively from NeXT in 1989."


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