Modem to Modem without a line simulator?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Monday 31 December 2007 15:13, Tom Watson wrote:
> If you want to make two "500" sets talk to each other, a nice 6 Volt
> battery works quite well placed in series with the two sets.  It won't make
> them ring, but you CAN talk.  Use a lantern battery (or 4 D cells) and
> unless you are making DTMF (touch-tone) on a polarity sensitive set (older
> 2500 sets) polarity makes little difference.

That's some of the sort of thing I used to do when I was a kid...

Worked well,  except I got into trouble one time trying to go across the 
street with that setup,  the wire wasn't long enough,  and the splice in the 
middle didn't hold up real well.  :-)

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