Date   : Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:10:33 +0100
From   : Joel Rowbottom <joel@...>
Subject: Re: Cheese Wedge Dating

At 10:55 03/06/2006, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> > Must admit, I have never seen a Prestel adapter "in the flesh" as it
> > were.  despite working at Micronet for a couple of years, and being
> > very heavily into the BBS scene as well.  It was just a standard
> > modem in the cheese wedge, wasn't it? Connected to the RS423 port.  I
> > just had a variety of "normal" modems..
>
>No, it wasn't a standard modem.  It used the standard tones for
>1200/75, of course, but it was a unique design, with some rather
>idiosyncratic (and sometimes problematic) control circuitry.

I can't actually think of a practical reason it would be like this, 
unless it was using signalling to do autodial or something similar to 
the Demon-2 and Designer modems. But the Prestel wedge wasn't autodial was it?


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