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From: emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: power from phone line
Summary: Not legally!
Keywords: phone, power, remote
Message-ID: <318@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
Date: 19 Dec 89 20:07:57 GMT
References: <14230@jumbo.dec.com>
Organization: Monotype ADG, Cambridge, UK
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In article <14230@jumbo.dec.com>, murray@jumbo.dec.com (Hal Murray) writes:
>[] 
> Can you scrounge any power from the phone line? I'm not thinking of 
> many watts, just enough to run a few slow CMOS chips.
> 
Theoretically, yes, a little. Legally NO, apart from anything else, it
IS theft!

Dave E.