From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 18 10:41:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA13611 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:41:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from cabal.io.org (cabal.io.org [198.133.36.103]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA13527 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:40:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from taob@localhost) by cabal.io.org (8.7.4/8.7.4) id NAA01545; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 13:37:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 13:37:58 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: Joe Greco cc: FREEBSD-CHAT-L Subject: Re: Microsoft "Get ISDN"? In-Reply-To: <199603181730.LAA25980@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > Been thinking about dumping my POTS service at home (yes, yes, I know the > dangers of being without power and only having an ISDN circuit..).. :-) ... or having an analog line connected to a phone that requires power to operate. ;-) For a while, I had two cordless phones in my apartment. If the power went out, I'd be stuck anyway, since neither of them work unless the base station is powered. Solution: I bought a $20 Bell Harmony phone, plugged it into the analog line, and moved one of the cordless phones to the POTS jack on the Bitsurfr. :) > First I actually have to get something beyond an XT laptop though. Or get working on the 8088 version of FreeBS. ;-) -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"