On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 11/27/2017 11:15 AM, Alan Frisbie via cctalk wrote: > > > Back in those days you could not connect anything directly to the > telephone > > lines -- you had to use the telco-supplied DAA (kaching!) or an acoustic > > coupler. I don't know if this modem can be connected directly to a > phone > > line without a DAA. > > > > I think the asking price is totally unrealistic unless you are a rabid > > collector of NCR gear. > > This particular unit seems to have a Mickey-mouse type of > coupler--receiver and transmitter connected by a cord. I never did > figure out how one was supposed to use this with, say, a Trimline phone. > I guess the answer was "you don't"). > You don't. Acoustic Coupled modems were always the standard handset or nothing. Warner
