Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!dave From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) Newsgroups: net.dcom Subject: Can you hook a direct-connect modem to a wired-in phone? Message-ID: <98@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 16:50:01 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.98 Posted: Mon Oct 15 16:50:01 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Oct-84 17:43:33 EDT Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 25 One of our people often does demonstrations of data communications from places in which he can't get a jacked phone. The quality of the line with an acoustic coupler at 1200 baud is often bad, and he's asked me whether our direct-connect GDC modems can be used in such a case. It occurs to me that if you take a phone jack which has a female RJ-11 socket and four coloured wires with connectors coming out at the other end, it might be possible to wire such a jack into either the wall plug (to which the phone is permanently wired) or the phone itself. Has anyone tried this? Is it likely to work? If you did it in a hotel room, would there be any chance of doing any harm to the switchboard? I assume it would be possible to open up the phone, and wire in the jack's red and green connectors where the line from the wall comes into the phone. Then plug the modem into this "portable jack (!)", and you're in business. Thanks for any comments or suggestions. Dave Sherman The Law Society of Upper Canada Toronto -- { allegra cornell decvax ihnp4 linus utzoo }!utcsrgv!dave