On Mar 29, 2006, at 11:27 PM, Jon Glass wrote:
> On 3/29/06, June Tate <june@theonelab.com> wrote:
>> Since my modems don't support dry wires, I'm just going to build a
>> serial cable and stop mucking around with modems. =op
>
> June-
>
> would it work to plug a y-jack into one of them (RJ11) and plug the
> empty plug of the Y-jack into a live phone line? Would that be
> sufficient to give power, or not?
> I don't think it would hurt to try, at least. ;-)
Yeah, that might work, but then you have the problem of the regular
phone network picking up on the DTMF and screaming at you for leaving
the phone off-hook for a long time. =op
-- June Tate june@theonelab.com http://www.theonelab.com -- This is the NewtonTalk list - http://www.newtontalk.net/ for all inquiries Official Newton FAQ: http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/ WikiWikiNewt for all kinds of articles: http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/Received on Thu Mar 30 11:08:21 2006
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