-=> Axel Berger wrote to Deloptes <=-

 AB> Phones used to work in emergencies. There was a direct wire to the
 AB> exchange and that was battery buffered. Today an electrity blackout
 AB> means no phone, no emrgency calls for an ambulance and no fire service
 AB> in case one of the many candles used topples over. You're cutr off like
 AB> rural places in the 19th century but unlike them totally inable to cope
 AB> on your own.

 Comcast, my cable provider, offers an internet/telco modem that
 provides dial tone. There's a spot in the modem to install a small
 battery backup, but I'm tempted to throw it on a spare desktop UPS
 and see how long it'll run.

 I still have one 2500 set left over from my days as a Phone Guy, keep
 it near the modem *just in case*.

  poindexter fortran | pfortran at realitycheckbbs dot org
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