Re: [Nolug] cell phones and fax machines

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 17:32, jdtiede@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Never heard of it, but certainly it's possible given the right
> device to convert analog to digital signal, which is what a modem
> ("modulator-demodulator") does. It may be as simple a thing as
> finding the right adapter to connect the modem to the phone. In
> fact, remember the old modems that were made so that you laid
> the phone receiver down on rubber cups? Maybe I'm dating myself!

Yeah, 300 baud acoustic modems. We used them at USL to connect
Televideo 925s to the Multics machine.

> ============================================================
> From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> Date: 2003/06/06 Fri PM 05:55:39 EDT
> To: NOLUG ML <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> Subject: [Nolug] cell phones and fax machines
>
> Hi,
>
> I've heard of plugging special modems into cell phones.
>
> Anyone heard of plugging standard fax machines (through some
> sort of adapter maybe) into cell phones?

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