> On May 9, 2017, at 2:58 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > On 2017-May-09, at 9:06 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: >> Looking at this documents: >> >> http://www.samhallas.co.uk/repository/telegraph/data_set_101c.pdf >> >> I sill can't figure out what a lot of the stuff inside is for. > > > I've looked at one of these modems in the bottom of a 33 although not > examined it in great depth. > I expect a large part of the volume of stuff like the relays isn't really > modem but call-management sequencing & switching: on/off hook, incoming-call > detect, answer detect, originate/answer mode switching, etc.
Yes, that's what the manual suggests, it lists a half dozen relays. It's not clear why any of them would be more than one or two pole relays, but perhaps the ones that were actually used (which are many-pole devices) happened to be standard units and were "more than enough for the job". paul