gzgj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (08/16/90)
Is it possible to use the Modem just to dial phone numbers so that it will let you pick-up the phone to talk ? I know that this sound a little weird, but I have a Touch Tone telephone which can not be used in Pulse Mode, an Emerson 2400EX Modem (Hayes compatible), and a Pulse Telephone Line, (Am I cheap?) I would appreciate any suggestions, thank you, Guillermo e-mail: GZGJ@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) (08/17/90)
In article <5082.26ca937a@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> gzgj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: >Is it possible to use the Modem just to dial phone numbers so that >it will let you pick-up the phone to talk ? Sure. Just issue the dialing command, then when you pick up the reciever issue a hangup command [ATH in Hayes-compatible] >I know that this sound a little weird, but I have a Touch Tone >telephone which can not be used in Pulse Mode, an Emerson 2400EX >Modem (Hayes compatible), and a Pulse Telephone Line, (Am I cheap?) Are you sure your touch-tone phone won't work on the pulse line? Here in Minneapolis, I have used touch-tone phones for years without telling the phone company I wanted a touch-tone line. My dad has used touch-tone phones for at least the past 7 years on a supposedly "non-touch-tone" phone line in his office, which is in Cambridge, a town of 3000 people [by which I mean to indicate the smallness and non-cutting-edgeness of Cambridge]. <chaz> -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "Must think...bubble pipe will relax me and I think..." - Flaming Carrot clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu AOL:Crowbone
russ@convex.COM (Russell Donnan) (08/17/90)
In article <2082@ux.acs.umn.edu> clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) writes: >In article <5082.26ca937a@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> gzgj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: >Are you sure your touch-tone phone won't work on the pulse line? Here in >Minneapolis, I have used touch-tone phones for years without telling the >phone company I wanted a touch-tone line. My dad has used touch-tone phones >for at least the past 7 years on a supposedly "non-touch-tone" phone line in >his office, which is in Cambridge, a town of 3000 people [by which I mean to >indicate the smallness and non-cutting-edgeness of Cambridge]. This has nothing to do with this group, so I'll keep it short: The NEW switching equipment has the ability to turn off touch-tone. They just keep compartmentalizing your bill until its outrageous. In Dallas I have to pay extra to be able to DISABLE my call-waiting and it costs $45 for a clerk to turn on my phone number. AT&T is getting us back for breaking it up... -- Russ Donnan, (214) 497-4778, russ@convex.com Convex Computer Corporation, 3000 Waterview Parkway, Richardson, TX -"To capture the essence of an opinion takes but one lawyer."