On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 luth-astro{at}earthlink.net wrote:

> That sounds like X-jack is the opposite of dongle.  One place indicated
> that a dongle was the connection to an outside power source.  Another
> indicated it was no more than a regular modular telephone line.  Can you
> explain?

PC cards are so thin, that you can't directly plug in a phone line.  With 
an "X jack" there is a part that sticks out so that you can insert the 
phone line vertically (from above).  With a dongle, one end connects to 
the modem, and the other end is a female connector for the phone line.



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