Teleco Question... More on my devious plan....

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Wed Dec 1 20:12:31 1999

>At 10:03 AM 12/1/99 -0600, Arfon Gryffydd wrote:
>>I have some old modems (TRS-80, acoustic and etc.) which I would like to
>>use (flashing LEDs are cool) so, I want to build a little telco emulator to
>>interface with the modems in one of my Linux boxes.
>
>You'd think it would be easy, and you think someone out there would
>have done it already. I wanted to do this once upon a time. It would
>seem like a great project for an old PC, a parallel port, a few
>junk-box relays and maybe a sound card. I think I mentioned this
>idea on this list a year or two ago, and Sellam (apparently a telco
>wizard) thought it could get complicated.
>
>- John

I know I have heard of something called a "ring generator" that can be used
I think in multiphone systems. I think it was part of some kind of modem,
but best advice is just go ask the phone guys in comp.dcom.modems etc.
Received on Wed Dec 01 1999 - 20:12:31 GMT