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From: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Connecting the NeXT box to phone lines -- Where is my RJ11??
Message-ID: <10297@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 18 Oct 88 03:37:06 GMT
References: <10639@reed.UUCP> <24824@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <24824@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>In article <10639@reed.UUCP> mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg) writes:
>>But where is the RJ-11?  [...]
>[... it] was later moved outside the case in a little box that just hangs 
>there like an appendage. [...] This also leaves more flexibility for use as 
>a FAX modem, etc.

I don't see why this would be true.  Every FAX I've ever seen has an
RJ-11, just like every modem I've ever seen.  

I can see how external phone interface circuitry could simplify
internationalization, but not how it would help the NeXT talk FAX. 

Jeff Siegal