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[pct-l] SHARP TM-20?
Any analog based modem device, not just the Sharp, will unfortunately not
work with digital phone lines as these new lines cannot "speak"
analog data which has a series of tones used to represent computer
data. The digital speaks only 1's and 0's.
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Rich
At 9:31 PM -0800 3/4/01, Nate Young wrote:
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><DIV>I've heard a lot of good things about the tm-20 with sending and
>receiving e-mail on the trail, but last summer on the CDT a thru hiker I
>ran into said he was having problems finding phones that worked with
>it. He said it had something to do with the devices
>analog receiver not being able to work with new digital phone
>lines. Was he saying that the Sharp tm-20 was becoming obsolete, or
>did I miss understand what he was saying? Will it still be an item
>worth taking when I try the PCT in 2002, or is there something
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