henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (10/26/89)
In article <1813@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes: >The data rate on something like a Telebit trailblazer modem is >almost good enough to support digitized half-duplex speech... Off on a complete tangent, if you want to carry on a voice conversation on a line with a Trailblazer connection on it, it is apparently possible to just pick up the phone (on each end) and talk. It's a bit, um, noisy, and the Trailblazers get annoyed by all this extraneous chatter on *their* line, but voice is intelligible and the connection doesn't break. Amazing. -- A bit of tolerance is worth a | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology megabyte of flaming. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu