Hello Dave!

Thursday August 22 1996 21:19, Dave Hatch wrote to Roger Dunk:

 SA>>> COM1--\                                               /--COM1
 SA>>> Device-+--Modem-+--Phoneline-+--Modem-+--Device
 SA>>> COM2--/                                               \--COM2

 > Uh - Roger - I've supervised the operation of several such multiplexers for
 > more than several years.   The technology has been around, and reliable,
 > for a considerable time.  (Cheap it isn't - the boxes are in thousands of
 > dollars per end.)

If you wanted to do it cheap with poor performance, I guess you could get a
PC with three serial ports and hack yourself up some software. A 286 should
do it if you're in to assembler programming, otherwise a low end 486. Not
for the faint of heart though :-)


Regards,
Hamish

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