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echo: aust_modem
to: Bill Grimsley
from: Ray Mcconnell
date: 1996-09-26 09:24:00
subject: Phone connection

G'day Bill,
 
 RM> You can't put a modem on the same line as a touchphone because the older 
 RM> touchphones make modems drop out about 50% of the time.

 BG> An interesting arbitrary figure, is that.  So why not 49% or 51% ?

Round numbers are nice :-)
Plus that was about the rate at which my modem dropped out with the TF200
model piggybacked to it. Interestingly it runs fine now.

Cheers!

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