old modems & a packet switcher

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Mon Aug 3 14:17:43 1998

On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, John Foust wrote:

> I'm surprised by this. I'd thought about ways of linking any number
> of old PCs at up to 2000 foot distances, and thought about recreating a
> POTS network and using now-free modems to send small amounts of data
> between them and to a central computer... but I'd never seen a
> reference to doing this in FAQs on the net. I'd assumed that
> was because it was too easy, not too hard.

Well, its incredibly easy if you have a PBX. Otherwise, it would be
nothing short of a bitch to create your own in-house AT&T.

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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