At 3:25 PM on 10 Sep 97, Scott Kiddy said to Htom Trites:
-> I wore out the Supra 2400, eventually, on another computer; we had
-> only pulse dialing in our neighborhood, and the relay finally gave
-> out.  Must have lasted seven or eight years, a virtual eternity
-> in computer years.
SK> Can it still be used for tone applications? What is this relay you
SK> reference? I've always wondered if it would be at all possible to
SK> wear out a modem, as in theory they should last forever...
The relay that "picks up" the phone line.  I'm actually assuming that
that is what has happened to it; if you plug an active phone line into
it, the speaker on the modem emits the dial tone, and while it thinks
it's dialing, it doesn't.  We didn't have tone service then, at all,
so I didn't even try.  I'll have to dig it out and see what happens;
it won't be able to hang up, is my guess.
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