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- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Modems and TDDs
- In-Reply-To: tnixon@hayes.com's message of 23 Nov 92 11:11:11 EDT
- Message-ID: <PHR.93Jan3054518@napa.telebit.com>
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- Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- References: <1992Nov20.182620.12008@news.acns.nwu.edu> <6357.2b10bc4f@hayes.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 13:45:18 GMT
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- In article <6357.2b10bc4f@hayes.com> tnixon@hayes.com writes:
-
- > I have a question from one of our clients about communicating between
- > a TDD (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf?) and a Mac with a
- > standard modem.
- >
- > My impression was this would be difficult in both hardware and software
- > because they use an old (5 bit?, 6 bit?) code rather thann ASCII.
- > But I can't find a reference handy.
- >
- > Can someone fill in more details on what is possible?
-
- The main problem communicating with a TDD is not the code (it is
- 5-bit Baudot, International Alphabet #2 [sort of], "Telex" code),
- since the translation can be handled in software. The real problem
- is the modulation. TDDs in North America use a special half-duplex
- modulation scheme, in which the 1400/1800Hz, 45.45 baud FSK signal
- is turned on and off for each keypress, and the same frequencies are
- used for both transmission and reception. This is quite different
- from the modulation schemes used in normal data modems, and the two
- cannot communicate. ...
-
- I wonder if some of the newer modems that digitize voice could
- be used for TDD, by programming digital filters to do the TDD
- decoding in the host software.
-