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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit FAX mode?
Keywords: FAX, faxcico, uucp, UNIX
Message-ID: <600@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 21:44:09 GMT
References: <597@pcrat.UUCP> <986@viscous>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <986@viscous> rosso@sco.COM (Ross Oliver) writes:
>much work to do on my own.  However, if you're really adventurous,
>think about this: almost all of these FAX boards (as well as many
>standalone FAX machines) are based on a two-chip FAX modem from
>Rockwell.  You can get an evaluation board from Rockwell, then
>stick a UART on it, or put it on your favorite computer bus, and
>roll your own FAX device.  For more info, call your local Rockwell

Obviously, this could be done.  But what I'd like is to not have to
dedicate another phone line to a separate FAX modem, be it PC
based, external, or a complete standalone unit.  I'd like to have
just the one phone line handle all my data needs: 2400, PEP, and
FAX, both incoming and outgoing.  Since Telebit has a modem that
is primarily implemented in software (as I understand it), they
are the obvious people to do such a thing.  Of course, I suppose
I could get a DSP, do the PEP protocol and the FAX protocol all
myself.  But that's a lot more effort.
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