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Posted by gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail on July 23, 2006, 10:20 pm
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Reed wrote:
> gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com wrote:
> > Rod Dorman wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>>For the work I do, (See website www.gregg.levine.name for details), I
> >>>need to find a gizmo that typically kept the company of the older
> >>>slower speed modems during the heyday of the dialup line period. These
> >>>devices were typically wired with modems for 1800 Baud to sometimes as
> >>>slower as 600 Baud. Supposedly according to what I can remember the
> >>>phone company insisted on their use to balance the line. They rapidly
> >>>became obsolete about the time the 2400 Baud modem became a definite
> >>>standard and were completely gone by the time the 9600 Baud devices
> >>>were used.
> >>
> >>Are you asking about an Data Access Arrangement (DAA)?
> >>
> >>--
> >> -- Rod --
> >>rodd(at)polylogics(dot)com
> >
> >
> > Hello!
> > I don't think so. I mean I'm trying to recall the name of the thing.
> > And can't at the moment. I believe it might have been a DAA unit,
> > except it sat in a container that was designed by the phone company for
> > their modems. I can't recal the actual name. However, I believe you may
> > be right. Do you actually have one or two of these things? And can
> > supply a digital photo of the thing? (Not to this group. You can e-mail
> > me it.)
> > --
> > Gregg gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com
> >
>
> The classic Bell (or Western Electric) DAA circa 1970 was a wall-mounted
> unit with a gray plastic cover. Two models, 2 wire manual dial/answer or
> 8 (IIRC) wire auto-answer. Test switch on top. Had an associated
> telephone with exclusion key for manual dialing (these were pre-Hayes AT
> modem days). In Bell operating co areas they would only have been WECO
> units, probably hard to find today.
>
> --reed
Hello!
Thank you sir! Then that confirms that sure as taxes it isn't a WECO
DAA. And your right the only modems I can think of for dial serviced
services, were other company modems, and not as good as the Hayes ones
were right up to about a few years ago. (Including the WECO modems
themselves!)
I would say it certainly isn't that thing but the next item in the list
of devices. I should also remind all of us that it was dressed in the
same case as the modem next to it.
--
Gregg gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com
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