Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site saturn.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!fortune!hpda!hplabs!saturn!faunt From: faunt@saturn.UUCP (Doug Faunt) Newsgroups: net.dcom Subject: Re: Can you hook a direct-connect modem to a wired-in phone? Message-ID: <2414@saturn.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 01:08:28 EDT Article-I.D.: saturn.2414 Posted: Thu Oct 18 01:08:28 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:31:03 EDT References: <98@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 27 I do this fairly regularly, since I go to SF conventions a lot and often take a terminal (I took a HP2382 to Baltimore, via Boston, on airlines). I carry a cable with spade lugs at one end, and a modular plug at the other, as well as a "T" adapter, and a cable with modular plugs at both ends, and have had no trouble in any hotel, including some pretty old and ratty places. Alligator clip leads would be a little more convenient sometimes, but since I'm usually staying for a few days, it doesn't matter much. Newer places often have modular connectors at one end or both, with the little lever cut off short, which is no problem for my trusty knife, and at least one hotel has had standard stuff, withe standard lever. I also carry an extension cord with multiple receptacles, since that is often harder to arrange. The worst place I ever had to connect was my father's house in low-country South Carolina, because they'd prewired the house with terminals only accessable from under the house, or in the instrument, and he had a fancy phone in a wooden box at the place where I could set up the terminal. I've now got an HP110, and can run it, the disc, and printer all on batteries, but I still have to plug in a 1200 baud modem, since HP has put a 300baud unit internally. Doug Faunt ...!ihnp4!hplabs!faunt faunt%hplabs@csnet-relay