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From: flinton@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: modem 1200 aka 1670
Message-ID: <5273@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 29 Dec 89 00:01:43 GMT
References: <2637@canisius.UUCP>
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In article <2637@canisius.UUCP>, moore@canisius.UUCP (Scott Stephen Moore)
writes:
> 
> When I try to dial, I hear the dial tone over the modem, I can hear the thing
> dialing (tone), but then the dial tone continues until the operator comes on;
> it just ignores the number it was supposed to dial for some bizzare reason.
>
Any chance the switch serving your premises is set for pulse-dial-detection
only?  If not (if you have a "TouchTone line"), welcome to the sad fact that
modem quality control seems to have vanished with last summer (three out of
three have struck out with me, brand new, right out of the box, all for
different reasons, in the past two months!).
		                                    -- Fred

Fred E.J. Linton  Wesleyan U. Math. Dept.  649 Sci. Tower  Middletown, CT 06457

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