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From: dattier@chinet.chi.il.us (David Tamkin)
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Subject: Re: Exclusion Modules (Reve
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Date: 3 Mar 90 19:53:05 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 144, Message 1 of 10


Ken Dykes wrote in TELECOM Digest, Volume 10, Issue 135:

| Oh yes, another trick I did when I got the 2nd line (and owned a cheap
| sealed phone I couldn't rewire easily) was buy one of those RJ-14(?)
| female-female adapter plugs, carefully separated the plastic halves,
| carefully removed the pins on one half and reinserted them with the
| logical lines reversed, *poof* instant line 1/2 adapter for cheap
| phones and modems that can't be wired directly!

Radio Shack (and perhaps other places) sell an already-wired adapter.
It has a single modular plug and three jacks: one jack carries the
inner pair, one carries the outer pair from the wall jack to its own
inner pair, and the third jack carries through both pairs from the
wall.  One can plug two single-line devices into the first two jacks
to have one use each line.

Yes, they are a little more expensive than the in-line coupler that
Ken Dykes modified, but they don't need all the rewiring work.


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