Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mprvaxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!mprvaxa!tbray From: tbray@mprvaxa.UUCP (Tim Bray) Newsgroups: net.dcom Subject: Re: Acoustic coupling and the CCITT - WHAT?!? Message-ID: <478@mprvaxa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 13:02:25 EST Article-I.D.: mprvaxa.478 Posted: Tue Feb 28 13:02:25 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 09:12:41 EST References: <5849@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Microtel Pacific Research, Burnaby BC Lines: 19 x <-- USENET insecticide Acoustic couplers, in my experience, are: - flaky - unreliable - slow - overpriced .......etc.... They deserve to become a dead technology. The CCITT is right on this one. Not that they always are, by any means. Whaddayamean you can only get direct-connects on a rental from the phone company? I can buy an ok little 300 jack-compatible for very little money, and a really nice 1200 Rixon or Hayes for (sigh) quite a bit of money. Now, I don't TELL the phone company what I'm doing. Why ask for trouble?